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Human trafficking accused to return to court in September

The woman is accused of selling the sexual services of minor girls on a website.

A woman and man accused of human trafficking and charges related to selling the sexual services of minor girls on a website, made another appearance at the Boksburg Magistrate’s Court on July 28.

The 38-year-old woman from Margate and her 35-year-old male co-accused, who is from Heidelberg, face charges of human trafficking, rape, conspiracy to commit a sexual offence, aiding and abetting another person to commit a sexual offence, sexual grooming of children, sexual exploitation of children and compelling or causing children to witness sexual offences.

The offences involving two minor girls, at the time aged between 13 and 14, reportedly took place between 2022 and 2023.

The woman also faces additional charges of keeping a brothel at a guesthouse in Boksburg and living off the earnings of prostitution.

Her bail application was denied on July 14, while her co-accused was granted R20 000 bail on April 24.

The matter was postponed to September 28 for further investigation and for the enquiry into the man’s bail conditions.

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