*Victims were sent to exclusive districts of Ibiza during the party season
*The 21 women from Nigeria were being forced to work 14 hour days
*Seventeen of them were sharing an apartment with four to a single bed
*Police have arrested 24 after women were offered fake jobs to migrate

Prostitutes as young as 16 who were taken to Ibiza for the tourist sex trade then beaten with brooms and sticks if they didn't bring in €1,000 a day have been rescued by police.

The victims, who were lured to the Spanish mainland with fake promises of jobs, were forced to work 14 hours a day.

One of the women, police have revealed, was just 16 years of age.

All 21 are Nigerian and were working in the exclusive districts of Ibiza.


A major operation carried out by the Spanish police in association with the Office of Criminal Investigation in Germany and Europol has led to the arrest of 24 suspects.

'The network captured very young victims among the lower classes of the major Nigerian cities, deceiving them with false job offers in Spain.

'Once in our country, they were forced into prostitution in marathon days, being beaten if they did not earn the money demanded by the gang,' said a police spokesman.

Investigators said Ibiza was chosen for the summer because of the high influx of tourists, with the gang totalling controlling the streets of the exclusive areas.

They were kept in one apartment and only allowed out occasionally to buy food or to keep an appointment with a client.

'If they didn't earn 1,000 euros a day, they would be forced to kneel for hours and beaten with sticks and brooms,' said the spokesman.


Police found that 17 women were forced to share one apartment of just 30 square metres, with three to four girls sleeping in one single bed.

The vulnerable women were given employment offers 'too good to refuse' in view of their poor circumstances but once captured, were unable to escape.

They were subjected to voodoo rituals and sworn to loyalty contracts under the threat of family members being killed.

The women were smuggled into Europe on boats and planes and were only told their job offer was false when they arrived in Spain.

They were then told they would have to pay up to 50,000 pounds to be freed and could do so through prostitution.

Those arrested included two women said to be the ringleaders who had 'years of experience' in recruiting vulnerable girls.

Police said they took elaborate steps to avoid detection, often moving the women from house to house.

One of the gang was arrested in Germany where he had tried to hide and five others were found to be members of the 1960s cult called 'Supreme Eiye Confraternity'.

The money earned from prostitution was sent to Nigeria via Madrid where a bar was used as the front.

Seven properties were raided in Spain and Germany and 20 bank accounts blocked.

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3804063/Prostitutes-young-16-Ibiza-beaten-brooms-sticks-didn-t-bring-1-000-day-freed-police.html

The girl child has suffered enough.

Hmm

This is so tragic. Human beings are their own worst enemies

Human traffickers should be given stiffer punishments. Maybe 15-25 years. That will go a long way in curbing this terrible trade

What I see here is greed. At 16 she should be thinking of how to develop herself either through education or learning a trade, hand work and not thinking of how to make money.

At 16 u dey plan go hustle for Europe I sorry u.. Nigerians and bad news everyday

give me d money oo

human trafficking is a petrifying behaviour that should attract a more loathsome purnishment.

wow so ibiza is in spain...

I took a pill in ..... that song

Olosho everywhere

these is insane Jesus; they aren't animals for crying out loud why shud dey be treated in such a way

no be herbie27 i dey see so

wetin concern me now, i don't even knw why am commenting, i guess the stout is starting to get to me, abeg which club hot pass for festac, i need to ball tonight no time, Rapongi is empty tonight need beta location

Please somebody should not come here and shout economy..
The heart of our youths is bent on making it fast.

Hmmmmm Buhari self ;DHmmmmm Buhari self

Please somebody should not come here and shout economy..
The heart of our youths is bent on making it fast.
SMH for this we ciuntry

Please somebody should not come here and shout economy..
The heart of our youths is bent on making it fast.
SMH for this we country

Hmmmmm Buhari self

The heart of man is desperately wicked.

9ja Babes no dey ever learn Lesson. More girl will still fall victim. Going to Europe with no qualification...

How do you rescue soneone that is not captive. Those girls know what they signed up for and they don't want to be liberated.

Cutehector:
The girl child has suffered enough.

Oga make una park well. Those girls know wetin carry them go Spain. The same stories have been there since I can remember yet everybody keep claiming ignorance. As we are typing this now some girls in Benin are making payment to enter Spain or Italy via Morocco or Libya. The girl child should respect herself and do what is right too by shunning offers that looks too good to be true in order to avoid stories that touch. The girl child should also learn to tame her greed as contentment is the key to a safe living. Or girl child brain different from boy child own? Let her use her brain abeg!

after crossing libya desert to spain and italy,u will see their parents in edo churches giving testimony on how their kids crossed......smh

Babangida70:
Edo

lonelydora:
Edo girls no go kill us for this country.

To people talking about anything else but the tragedy that makes African girls sell themselves overseas, you are so crass. These are people suffering for one reason or the other, I know you Nigerians are completely desensitised to suffering because that is your countries motto, but at least have some sense to keep your ignorant comments to yourself.

Edo girls no go kill us for this country.