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During a hearing on Thursday, the B.C. Supreme Court judge was informed that an alleged victim of human trafficking was made to believe that she was coming to Canada for a salon job at the time she signed her visa applications, unaware that the paperwork was being sent overseas as a domestic worker. 26-year-old Mumtaz Ladha, a Tanzanian born Canadian, was accused by a West Vancouver woman back in 2008 of forcing a woman into domestic servitude by asking her to come to Canada for six months.
The victim, who cannot be named due to a publication ban, refused to come to Canada because she didn’t want to leave her son, after which Ladha offered her a job in Canada that would pay her $200 a month. In her statement recorded via a Swahili interpreter, the woman stated that “she told me that she’s going to open a salon (in Canada), and I’m going to do manicures, pedicures and massages.” Later after discussing the prospect with her sister, the women accepted the job.
The victim explained that she made the decision because “it was not a nice life” living in Africa, and a monthly salary of $200 would have helped supporting her family. The woman has previously testified in court that she made to work as a housekeeper for Ladha 11-hour days, six days a week, and earned what would now be the equivalent of just over $30 a month.
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