Couple gets five years jail for trafficking teen girls

A husband and wife, who recruited four teenage girls from Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam and transported them to Oko Backdam, in Region Seven, for sexual exploitation, on Thursday each received a five year prison sentence.

Candacy Anderson, 38, and her common-law husband, Wesley Hart, 41, of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara were sentenced by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the Reliance Magistrate’s Court, who found them guilty of human trafficking.

The court heard that on April 15, 2012 Anderson and Hart engaged in trafficking in persons,