She's a tiny woman, one might almost call her a girl at first sight.

Doesn't look at all like what you would figure for a jail guard, a turnkey, a screw.

Doesn't look like a former teenage boxing champion, which she is. Married her coach's son.

Doesn't look much like an exotic dancer, the employment she took after being suspended from her job as a corrections officer at Toronto South Detention Centre because of the relationship into which she'd entered with an inmate.

Doesn't look at all like her sultry Facebook selfie.

Doesn't look pregnant either, not showing yet, at least not while enveloped in a baggy black hoodie. Hand raised to cover her face, brown hair pulled into two peroxided French braids, as Sukhpreet Singh left the University Ave. courthouse after making bail on a second bid for freedom — a contested bail review.

A previous judge, in March at College Park, had said no way. Superior Court Justice Maureen Forestell disagreed. She was released on an $11,000 surety, posted by her mother and younger sister.

Singh is 24 years old, has no criminal record and, until last summer, appears to have led an exemplary life, if maybe not particularly attentive to a toddler daughter after separating from her husband in 2018, leaving the little girl mostly in the care of parents and in-laws. Now she stands accused on two counts of robbery, being the getaway driver — using her mom's Jeep Wrangler — in an armed holdup at a Brampton Subway shop and a violent heist at a Huntsville motel, both this past March.

Oh, there's also the allegation heard at Singh's bail hearing in March that Singh was the blond woman in the vehicle during the break-and-enter of her father's Tandoori restaurant in Brampton. And the allegation that Singh was in the Jeep when a suspect that Peel police were trying to arrest smashed into cop cruisers that had boxed the Jeep in and managed to escape. And the allegation that, on an earlier occasion, last November, when police spotted the black Wrangler in connection with an LCBO theft, and after they approached the man standing next to the Jeep, Singh flashed her Toronto South badge, telling officers the man was with her, she was a corrections officer, and everything was fine, nothing to concern themselves with here. The man had identified himself as "Andrew Tynes," which police later determined to be false.

In all those incidents, police believe the male suspect was Tatum Ogden, Singh's boyfriend, aforementioned Toronto South inmate. Ogden, 32, has since been arrested on a dozen charges for armed robberies across the GTA and remains in custody in Huntsville. He has a lengthy record and five firearms prohibitions.

Everything comes back to Ogden and a young woman's apparent romantic thrall to a career criminal. A woman who, last August, complained to her bosses at Toronto South that she was being criminally harassed — called, texted — by Ogden.

Yet when Singh's supervisor asked why she'd given out personal information — her phone number — to an inmate, Singh was unable to provide a reasonable explanation. She was subsequently suspended and is grieving.

Singh was arrested with Ogden in March and had been on the other side of prison bars at Vanier Centre for Women in Milton ever since.

On March 3, Ogden allegedly walked into a Subway restaurant in Brampton, asked for a cookie from a female employee, gestured towards a handgun tucked in his waistband and demanded cash from the till, jumping over the counter to seize the till, making off with it in a car driven by a female with blond hair.

In the March 13 Huntsville assault, police responded to assist an ambulance after an employee at the Rainbow Inn had been struck in the head and stomped by two men wielding handguns, then dragged into a back room where the assault continued. Surveillance video showed one of the men grabbing the entire cash drawer and lamming it.

The licence plate matched a vehicle involved in other robberies across the GTA.

Cops on patrol found that Jeep in an apartment parking lot with Singh in the passenger seat. An imitation black handgun was found inside the Jeep. Both Singh and Ogden were arrested. Following the arrest, court heart, Singh told the Toronto Police holdup squad that she had been driving Ogden around as he sought drugs. Queried about the Subway robbery, Singh acknowledged that, yes, Ogden had returned to the vehicle with a cash tray, yelling at her to "DRIVE! DRIVE!''

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Monday's bail hearing is covered by a publication ban. But there was no ban imposed on Singh's March bail hearing. That followed a bail hearing in Huntsville, where Singh did in fact make bail related to the motel assault but was immediately taken to Toronto to face charges on the Subway robbery. Singh is accused only of involvement in those two robberies.

At the College Court hearing on that charge, Justice Joseph Bovard related a detail-rich synopsis of the case against Singh; that she'd admitted to driving Ogden around to obtain drugs; that with regard to the Subway robbery, "she said that she had an idea that he was robbing the store because he came back to the Jeep running with a cash tray yelling at her to drive. At that point, she knew what she had done."

Singh had looked at photos taken from various robbery locations and identified Ogden. She admitted driving to Huntsville with Ogden, stopping on two occasions. "She never attempted to flee from him or to notify the police regarding what was happening …. She admitted that she knew that Mr. Ogden had been charged for breaking and entering into her father's restaurant."

Bovard denied Singh bail, noting that the Crown's case against the defendant wasn't "overwhelming, but was close to it."

Undone Monday — reversed — by Forestell.

Poor pregnant lady jail guard turned robbery accomplice, allegedly. What she did for love, allegedly.

In the courtroom, Singh's mother, Amarjit Kaur — she put up $10,000 of the bail — seemed utterly bewildered.

"A mistake is a mistake,'' she told reporters, before turning away. "I don't know why she made that mistake."

Note - May 29, 2019: This column was edited from a previous version for legal reasons.