NASSAU-A Dominican woman who forced a woman to work as a sex slave has paid her victim $B10,000 in restitution as part of her sentence.
Sobeyda Reyes-Garcia, 39, was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay restitution after her human trafficking case ended with a plea deal on Friday.
The two-year sentence amounts to time-served. That’s because Reyes-Garcia received credit for the 16 months spent on remand and a one-third reduction for good behaviour.
Garcia-Reyes’ 23-year-old victim came to The Bahamas in December 2018 after she responded to an ad for a babysitter. Instead, she found herself held against her will and forced to sell her body. But the woman woman fled her captors on January 31, 2019 and reported the matter to police.
After a police investigation, Reyes-Garcia was charged with conspiracy to engage in trafficking in persons, engaging in trafficking in persons and unlawfully withholding identification.
Prosecutors dropped the charge of withholding the trafficked woman’s passport as part of the plea agreement.
Garcia-Reyes pleaded guilty to the remaining charges when she appeared before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt.
