Guyanese human trafficker busted in Canada
RCMP last week arrested Savita Singh, a 43-year-old Guyanese woman, together with three Ontario residents, on charges of conspiracy to violate immigration laws by smuggling two Guyanese into the United States.
Four years ago, she was convicted in a US court on similar charges.
The Canadian charges are similar to trouble Singh faced in Maine in 2005.
According to media reports at that time, she was arrested by authorities in the US and subsequently pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle three migrants from Guyana into the US.
Then, she went by the name Savita Singh-Murray and was sentenced in a US District Court to 132 days in jail, which she served.
Judge John Woodcock at the time admonished Singh-Murray for her involvement in what prosecutors suspected was a plot to bring young women into the country to be forced to work as prostitutes.
The judge’s rebuke went in one ear and out the other, perhaps because the light sentence he handed down does not match the severity of her crime.