Three members of an international
prostitution ring that smuggled a
Nigerian woman into the UK to work as a
sex slave under the
threat of a voodoo curse are facing jail
today.Olusoji Oluwafemi, 44, Johnson
Olayinka, 45, and Florence Obadiaru, 48,
were convicted of trafficking the woman
into the UK for sexual exploitation and
arranging for her transfer to Italy.
The gang conned the innocent 23-year-
old into flying to Heathrow Airport on a
bogus passport with the promise of
education, a job and a new home.
Before leaving Nigeria, she was raped
and forced to go through a black magic
‘juju’ death ritual to prevent her running
away.
According to Mailonline,when the woman
arrived in London, her employment
failed to materialise. Instead, she was
told she was destined to work as a sex
slave in Italy.
The plan was only thwarted when Italian
authorities spotted her forged ID and
sent her back to the UK.
The victim, who only spoke a little
English, had been recruited by a
Nigerian local called Beneditta in
her home village near Benin
City.Her family had struggled
financially since the death of her
father in 2008, but she aspired to
become a nurse.In February 2011,
Beneditta offered to help the
young woman by sending her to
England to be educated properly
and get a job.She was told the cost
would be £40,000 – which she would
have to repay to the
organisers.She had no idea at all
what £40,000 was in her own
currency, her life had been very
hard after her father died, and she
jumped at the chance to be
educated and be trained for a job,
and get away from the desperation
and misery of her current family
situation.She was very excited, a
naive young girl, at the prospect of
going abroad.’
She was sent to theNigerian capital
of Lagos on March 23, 2011, to meet
a man called Felis who made her a
false passport and coached her in
getting through UK
immigration.While he was doing
that, he began to sexually assault
her’,That led him to beat her with a
belt and that in turn led to him
raping her that night.’When she
complained to Beneditta the next
morning, she was told: ‘It was what
you should have expected’.She was
then told to pose for photos with a
man who would pretend to be her
husband.In September 2011 she was
summoned to the west African
country of Benin to get a visa.The
woman was then told to swear an
oath to repay the money in a
ceremony that involved cutting her
armpit and pubic hair and taking
finger nail clippings.
She was driven to Lagos on
September 12, 2011 and put on a
plane to the UK, meeting Olayinka
at Heathrow Airport.Olayinka,
calling himself ‘Mike’, checked her
into the Marbella Hotel in Peckham,
south London, and took away her
money and passport.She was next
taken to the house of Obadiaru, an
old friend of Beneditta’s, and kept
there for a few weeks with no sign
of a job or education.Obadiaru’s
son, who suffers from learning
difficulties, groped her on the first
night in the house in Brockley,
southeast London.But when she
complained, Obadiaru allegedly told
her: ‘What do you think you are
here for?’The woman was told she
was being sent to Italy on October
3, 2011, and collected another false
passport from Olayinka’s home.‘It
was then for the first time that this
very young girl from a small village
in Africa, miles away from home,
realised she was about to be sent
to Italy to be forced into
prostitution’
She came to that gradual
realisation, and she suddenly
remembered hearing conversations
between some men and their girls
in Italy.She couldn’t speak Italian
and there was no question of her
being able to work in Italy in the
normal sense.She became very
upset and fearful of what awaited
her.The gang’s plan was thwarted
by Italian immigration officials, who
stopped the woman on an obviously
forged passport at Milan Airport
and sent her straight back to the
UK.After she was detained by
immigration officials, the woman led
them to the alleged identity factory
in Osoba’s flat in South
Bermondsey, southeast London,
and laptops which had been used to
make false documents by Olayinka.
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