A pair of Chi­nese na­tion­als have been ac­quit­ted of traf­fick­ing two Venezue­lan girls based on the fail­ure of the State to prove the ages of the al­leged vic­tims.

On Thurs­day, Chang Bao Wang and Wei Liang Wu were found not guilty of two counts of traf­fick­ing a child at the end of their tri­al be­fore Jus­tice Kathy-Ann Wa­ter­man-Latchoo and a nine-mem­ber ju­ry at the O’Meara Ju­di­cial Com­plex in Ari­ma.

The duo were ar­rest­ed and charged in April 2019 as part of a ma­jor hu­man traf­fick­ing and pros­ti­tu­tion in­ves­ti­ga­tion con­duct­ed un­der the tenure of for­mer po­lice com­mis­sion­er Gary Grif­fith.