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Female bar owner gets 10yrs for trafficking Venez. women
Savita Persaud, the owner of the Liquid Love Bar, located at Station Street, Kitty, Georgetown, was yesterday sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment for two trafficking in person charges. She was also fined over $4M to pay the victims.
Jailed: Savita Persaud
Persaud appeared before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts where she was found guilty and sentenced to prison. The trial was held in-camera and Persaud was represented by Attorney-at-law George Thomas.
Chief Magistrate McLennan sentenced Persaud to serve 10 years imprisonment for trafficking of a 17-year-old girl and five years for the older woman. The sentences will run concurrently.
The charge stated that between January 3, 2019 and March 8, 2019, at Station Street, Kitty, she engaged in trafficking in persons, in that she recruited, transported and harboured two Venezuelans, for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
The compensation that Persaud was ordered to pay to the two victims are $2.3M to the 17-year-old girl and $2.2M to the other victim.
Persaud was slapped with five charges last month. She was previously sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and fined $ 1.1M on her last court appearance on three out of the five charges. Those sentences will also run concurrently.
Those three sentences were for unlawfully withholding the identification cards of two Venezuelan nationals in aid of trafficking in persons. The final charge was for employing a 17-year-old girl to sell liquor at her premises.
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