Voodoo rites were used on a
Nigerian minor to make her prostitute herself, as well as
beatings and threats against her family in Nigeria, police in
Caserta northwest of Naples said Wednesday.
Police arrested three people from Ghana and Nigeria: two
Nigerian women, Joy Kingsley, 48, and 38-year-old Edith Osazuwa;
and a Ghanaian man, 32-year-old Seare Seth Asare.
The girl suffered the mistreatment and rites at Castel
Volturno near Caserta, where there is a large African community,
police said.
The town, dubbed a 'banlieue' by the media, hosts some 20,000
foreigners, almost three quarters of them irregular immigrants.
The Nigerian mafia controls prostitution rackets there as
well as the abduction of young woman, mostly from Nigeria and
neighbouring countries.
The three arrestees are accused of various crimes including
putting a person into slavery.
As well as the young Nigerian girl forced to prostitute
herself, police said the trio were also holding two other
foreigners who were made to work the Domiziana state highway.
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