{"id":238040,"date":"2026-07-03T05:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-woman-convicted-of-human-trafficking-in-grand-cape-mount\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:58:35","slug":"liberia-woman-convicted-of-human-trafficking-in-grand-cape-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-woman-convicted-of-human-trafficking-in-grand-cape-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Woman Convicted of Human Trafficking in Grand Cape Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">A unanimous jury has convicted Bendu V. Kamara of trafficking in persons, theft of property and criminal conspiracy for running a cross-border operation that lured vulnerable Liberians with false promises of jobs in Senegal, then delivered them to captivity in Guinea, and she now faces sentencing July 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Presiding Judge Mamiata Jabateh Sirleaf of the Fifth Judicial Circuit Court accepted the verdict, returned after more than two months of trial during the court&#8217;s May term, and ordered Kamara&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607020496.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A unanimous jury has convicted Bendu V. Kamara of trafficking in persons, theft of property and criminal conspiracy for running a cross-border operation that lured vulnerable Liberians with false promises of jobs in Senegal, then delivered them to captivity in Guinea, and she now faces sentencing July 8. Presiding Judge Mamiata Jabateh Sirleaf of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,14018,11361,8994,3575,4712,1107,16850,257,254,6615,4307],"class_list":["post-238040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cape","tag-convicted","tag-grand","tag-human","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mount","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238040","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=238040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}