Brothel owner made sex slaves eat live snakes
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First posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 01:21 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 02:00 PM EST
A woman in Wales who kept a brothel of young Nigerian women, and frightened them into sex work with voodoo rituals that included eating live snakes, has been ordered to pay restitution to her victims.
Lizzy Idahosa, 26, was sentenced to eight years in jail in 2014. A court this week ordered her to pay the trafficked women $40,000.
The jury heard from two young women during Idahosa’s original trial, who said the madam subjected them to “juju” rituals before they were allowed to travel with her to London.
The women said they visited a witch doctor and were forced to eat live snakes and snails.
Once in Britain, where they had hoped for a better life, the women were forced into sex work, handing over every penny they made to Idahosa.
They said they were terrified to disobey Idahosa for fear the juju powers would kill them or drive them insane.
“It was not a big snake, but it was alive. I just closed my eyes and put it in my mouth,” one girl was quoted as saying in the U.K. Daily Mail. “They told me if I messed if up, I would get sent back to Nigeria and Lizzy would kill me. I wanted to stop. I was ashamed of myself and I had no life.”
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First posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 01:21 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, March 08, 2016 02:00 PM EST
A woman in Wales who kept a brothel of young Nigerian women, and frightened them into sex work with voodoo rituals that included eating live snakes, has been ordered to pay restitution to her victims.
Lizzy Idahosa, 26, was sentenced to eight years in jail in 2014. A court this week ordered her to pay the trafficked women $40,000.
The jury heard from two young women during Idahosa’s original trial, who said the madam subjected them to “juju” rituals before they were allowed to travel with her to London.
The women said they visited a witch doctor and were forced to eat live snakes and snails.
Once in Britain, where they had hoped for a better life, the women were forced into sex work, handing over every penny they made to Idahosa.
They said they were terrified to disobey Idahosa for fear the juju powers would kill them or drive them insane.
“It was not a big snake, but it was alive. I just closed my eyes and put it in my mouth,” one girl was quoted as saying in the U.K. Daily Mail. “They told me if I messed if up, I would get sent back to Nigeria and Lizzy would kill me. I wanted to stop. I was ashamed of myself and I had no life.”
Brothel owner made sex slaves eat live snakes | World | News | Toronto Sun
