La Prairie: Leticia Sarmiento

Leticia Sarmiento: Franco Yiu Kwan Orr was found guilty in June of human trafficking for bringing Sarmiento with his family to Canada, where she earned $500 a month to care for his three children. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. La Prairie asked Goepel to impose a prison sentence of five to six years. VANCOUVER - Leticia Sarmiento was a modern-day slave, working 16 hours a day, seven days a week as a nanny for a wealthy family in British Columbia, says the Crown, urging a judge to hand down a sentence for her former employer that will deter others from trafficking vulnerable women. "He kept her as a virtual slave in his home," Crown lawyer Peter La Prairie told the B.C. Supreme Court Judge Richard Goepel on Wednesday. "It was a crime of greed and it was a crime of control." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.