FREEPORT – A mother-of-eight who married a Haitian and Jamaican immigrant so they could legally work and live in The Bahamas has been fined.
Nadacate Outten, 41, pleaded guilty to two counts of entering into a fraudulent marriage on Friday.
The bogus bride said she was “down on her luck” when entered into the marriages of convenience—and she desperately needed money to take care of her children.
As Outten is a single parent and the sole provider for her children, the prosecution did not request a jail sentence.
Deputy Chief Magistrate Debbie Ferguson fined Outten $1,500 or one year in prison on each count. Outten has until June 1 to pay the $3,000 fines in order to avoid spending two years’ imprisonment.
Meanwhile, Jamaican Oral Anthony White and Haitian Moselus Monneus admitted to participating in the scheme.
Both men said they did not know about Outten’s marriage to the other.
However, they acknowledged that they married her only to receive legal status to live and work in The Bahamas.
Magistrate Ferguson ordered their immediate deportation.
