Eleven Nigerians, eight women and
three men, were arrested in Turin Friday for allegedly luring
Nigerian women to Italy with the promise of a better life and
then forcing them into prostitution to pay back the 25,000 euro
a head debt they had contracted.
The young women were subjected to voodoo rites before
crossing the desert to Libya and the sea to the island of
Lampedusa and being moved to migrant reception centres where the
gang picked them up, police said.
Nigerian teenagers and young women selling sex is a common
sight for motorists in Italy.
Working along roadsides and secondary highways in cities big
and small, they are a reminder that while Italy has been
successful in curbing immigration from Libya, it has largely
failed to help a fraction of the migrants trafficked as sex
slaves.
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