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— Criminal Court “A” has sentenced five women to 20 years’ imprisonment for trafficking 14 children out of Liberia, ruling that the defendants acted in a coordinated scheme built on deception, abuse of power, and exploitation.<\/p>\n
The judgment, delivered at the Temple of Justice, brings closure to a closely watched prosecution under Liberia’s Trafficking in Persons Act of 2021, following weeks of testimony, cross-examination, and legal arguments.<\/p>\n
In its findings, the court held that prosecutors…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> — Criminal Court “A” has sentenced five women to 20 years’ imprisonment for trafficking 14 children out of Liberia, ruling that the defendants acted in a coordinated scheme built on deception, abuse of power, and exploitation. The judgment, delivered at the Temple of Justice, brings closure to a closely watched prosecution under Liberia’s Trafficking in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6683,8438,6185,5696,4712,1107,257,6186,7897,254,6615,8402,6524,5114],"class_list":["post-228408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-case","tag-child","tag-court","tag-jailed","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-orders","tag-protection","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking","tag-victims","tag-women","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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