Human Trafficking: Mumtaz Ladha

Mumtaz Ladha: The employer, Mumtaz Ladha, a 60-year-old Canadian citizen who split her time between West Vancouver and Tanzania, is now on trial for several human trafficking-related offences. She is accused of lying to immigration officials in Tanzania to bring the young woman to Canada and then employing her illegally after they arrived. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. The young Tanzanian woman stayed at Ladha's home in a posh area of West Vancouver until she fled to a shelter in June 2009. VANCOUVER - A young woman who hailed from "humble beginnings" in the East African country of Tanzania left behind her home and a three-year-old child for the promise of earning $200 a month in a Vancouver-area salon, only to be forced into domestic servitude with no pay and little means of escape, the Crown alleged Tuesday at a human trafficking trial. Ladha and the young woman, whose name is covered by a publication ban, arrived in the Vancouver area in August 2008, when the Crown alleges the victim was handed a maid's outfit and set to work. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.