Tiger Creek shopkeeper denies new human trafficking charge

Ann Marie Carter

Tiger Creek shopkeeper Ann Marie Carter yesterday faced a new human trafficking charge stemming from the alleged inducing of another woman into prostitution.

Carter, of 84 First Avenue, Bartica, who was charged in June with forcing two girls into prostitution in the Tiger Creek Backdam, in Region Seven, pleaded not guilty to the new charge read against her yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. She was also accused of unlawful assault.

The trafficking charge stated that between March 14 and April 1, 2013, at Tiger Creek, Puruni, Carter recruited the