THE trafficking in person case, involving a couple, continued at New Amsterdam Court, Berbice, last Monday.
At the continuation, the second witness was cross-examined by Defence Counsel Peter Hugh. Candacy Abigale Anderson is charged with having trafficked while her common law husband, Wesley Hart alias ‘Stone’, is accused of conspiring to commit the offence and they are being tried together.
The two, of Lot 76 Middle Street, Pouderoyen, West Bank  Demerara, were, initially, placed on $250,000  each, after they were alleged to have recruited four under age girls who were  transported to Itabali and Oko backdam in Essequibo and harboured for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
The returning witness, now 16 years old, related that she lived with her mother at Angoy’s Avenue, the squatting area on the eastern fringe of New Amsterdam.
The teen testified that she had not known the defendants previously but met Anderson through a relative, who happened to be one of the other victims.
She said, prior to April 2012, she had gone into the interior with a woman named Suzanne and stayed at Madhia, Potaro, for two months but returned home.

Leaving school
The teenager recalled leaving school at age 13 in form two and going to Madhia to indulge in sex for money. While her mother knew where she was going, the parent did not know for what reason.
According to the witness, it was a Rastafarian named ‘Rick’, who had asked her if she wanted to go into the interior to ‘pick fares.’
She denied having discussions, in Berbice, with the defendants about what she was going to do ‘in the bush’. However, it was Anderson who picked her up with a car, in which Hart and Rick were passengers.
Before the adjournment was taken, the witness said the defendants did not deceive her by saying she was going for one job but gave her something else to do.