Franca Asemota, 38 from Benin, Edo State, has been sentenced to 22 years imprisonment for human trafficking especially girls and women on Thursday at Heathrow Airport, UK.
She was found guilty of twelve counts of conspiracy charges of human trafficking.
at Isleworth Crown Court, United Kingdom on Wednesday.
Nigerian woman goes to jail for girls trafficking
Ms Asemota forced dozens of teenage orphans into prostitution and slavery using the threat of witchcraft. She used Heathrow as a hub to traffic at least 40 girls and young women into Europe from remote villages in Nigeria after promising them jobs, education and a better life.She was reported to be part of a criminal network that trafficked girls, boys and women from Nigeria to Europe using threats to guarantee their compliance.
She was later arrested in Nigeria, extradited to the UK for trial by the coordinated work of NCA and EFCC.
The head of the Immigration Enforcement crime team, David Fairclough, described Ms. Asemota as the “lynchpin of a trafficking ring which targeted vulnerable young women in Nigeria, promising them a brighter future working in Europe”.
Mr. Fairclough said it however became clear soon that what she claimed to be doing was far different, as the victims, some who were as young as 13, were told they would be sold into prostitution.
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