Amber Maloney, the Ivy-area child-care provider charged earlier this month with human trafficking, made a brief video appearance in court today.
Maloney, 36, was charged Wednesday, July 19, just days after police alerted the public that her husband, Lauriston Maloney, was a convicted sex offender who was listed on the national sex offender registry was living at Beating the Odds Children's Camp in Essa Township, west of Barrie.
The centre, which Amber Maloney owned and operated at the couple’s Ivy-area home, offered services for children with autism.
She is charged with trafficking in a person, receiving material benefit resulting from trafficking a person, administering a noxious substance, fraud over $5,000, and uttering a forged document. Maloney is expected to return, in person, to bail court on Wednesday, Aug. 2.
Police have previously indicated the alleged victim in the case did not attend the Beating the Odds day camp.
Lauriston Maloney is scheduled to appear before a judge via video conference on Tuesday, Aug. 1. He has been charged with two counts of assault, trafficking in a person, receiving material benefit resulting from trafficking a person, and forcible confinement.
None of the allegations against either of the accused have been tested in court.
