KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Two people will be sentenced early next month after they were convicted of human trafficking charges in the Home Circuit Court involving a teenage girl from Haiti.

A seven-member jury deliberated for more than two hours Friday before finding Rohan Ebanks guilty of rape, trafficking in person, and facilitating trafficking in person.

His co-accused, Voneisha Reeves, pleaded guilty to facilitating trafficking in person at the start of the in-camera trial.

They will be sentenced on July 7.

The court heard that while on a visit to Haiti in 2010, Ebanks convinced relatives of a teenage girl to allow him to take her to Jamaica with the promise that she would have a better life.

However, prosecutors say when the teen arrived in Jamaica, she was forced to take care of the couple’s children and was sexually assaulted.

Ebanks broke down in tears after the jury’s decision was announced. He maintained his innocence.

His attorneys, Donald Bryan and Paul Wayne Gentles, said they would be appealing the verdict.

Ebanks and Reeves bring to four the number of people convicted of human trafficking since the legislation was enacted in 2007.