Latest update February 10th, 2025 7:48 AM
Businesswoman charged for allegedly trafficking minor niece
A Grove businesswoman was yesterday, released on a total of $650,000 bail after she was charged
Joyce Lawrence
with trafficking her niece. The woman, Joyce Lawrence, of Lot 306 Tract ‘X’ Plantation, Grove, East Bank Demerara was also charged for allegedly withholding the young woman’s identification card.
It is alleged that between December 12 and December 14, 2014 at Samatta Point, Grove, Lawrence had transported her niece, who was at the time a minor, by means of threat. It was further alleged that between December 1 and December 28, 2014 at a night club in Aishalton, Region Nine, Lawrence again trafficked the minor by means of threat.
And finally, she is accused of unlawfully withholding the girl’s identification card, while being her employer.
The businesswoman was not required to plead to the indictable charge after they were read to her by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Attorney, Euclin Gomes, requested that his client be released on bail. He said that the allegations against the woman were trumped up. Gomes said that his client is married with three children and is not a flight risk
Lawrence was ordered to post bail in the sum of $250,000 on each trafficking in person charges. As it relates to the other charge, bail was set at $150,000. This matter was transferred to the Lethem Magistrate’s Court for March 22.
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