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| Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by RichyBlacK(m): 9:43am On Feb 13, 2010 |
[size=18pt]Couple jailed after using trafficked girls in huge prostitution ring[/size] Nigerians aged from 15 to 21 forced to work in business controlled from former vicarage in Wales Caroline Davies guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 February 2010 23.14 GMT A couple were jailed today after running a pros.titution ring from an old vicarage in Wales using girls trafficked from Nigeria. Thomas Carroll, 48, an Irishman, and Shamiela Clark, 32, his South African wife, controlled their multimillion-pound business from a mobile phone "call centre" in Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire. Among the pros.titutes were six trafficked girls and young women, aged from 15 to 21, some of whom had been terrified into working for fear of breaking a "juju" oath they were forced to take during voodoo ceremonies in Nigeria. Carroll was jailed for seven years, and Clark, a former pros.titute, for three and a half years, at Cardiff crown court, after both admitted conspiracy to control pros.titution for gain and conspiracy to money-launder. Carroll's daughter, Toma, 26, was imprisoned for two years after admitting laundering the profits which, in one year alone, totalled more than £800,000. After the case, investigators said the evidence suggested that at the time of their arrest, the couple were in the process of setting up a similar operation in South Africa to coincide with the World Cup. The couple ran more than 35 brothels, mainly in the Irish Republic, from the rented Welsh farmhouse to which they fled after coming to the attention of the gardaí. The Nigerian women and girls, who were not trafficked by the defendants, were among pros.titutes supplied to the ring. One girl rescued by police was just 14 when trafficked out of Nigeria, and 15 when placed in one of the Carroll brothels. All came from poor family backgrounds, having lost one or both parents, and were promised a better life away from their remote, rural villages. One was told she could be a hairdresser, another that she would be put into further education. "Instead, they find themselves being issued with forged passports in different names and being taken to Dublin via various routes and find themselves in the hands of the Carroll family," Mark Phillips, deputy director of the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), which was involved in the operation, said after the case. "The first these girls know they are going into a life of pros.titution is when they are bought items of clothing, dropped off at a flat, and get a phone call to say 'expect a male customer and do what you are told'," They worked 12 to 15 hours a day, were regularly moved from brothel to brothel, and supplied with "necessities" – condoms, creams and lingerie. Food was brought to them. The going rate was €160 (£140) for half an hour, but they had to pay their money into Toma Carroll's bank account. Of the 15 pros.titutes caught in the police raids on Carroll's brothels, some were from South America and Europe and willingly worked for him. But many of the trafficked women and girls lived in fear of juju oaths, made during "terrifying and humiliating" rituals they were forced into by traffickers. One was forced to sleep in a coffin to "put the fear of death" in her. Menstrual blood was drawn into a padlock, locked, and thrown in the river to signify their lives were in the hands of the river goddess, said investigators. Live chickens were killed and the victims made to eat the raw hearts. Fingernail clippings and pubic hair cuttings were taken, and retained, to "instill the fear of God in them" and show they could be "metaphysically" reached wherever they were. Often the girls were naked, and one was cut all over her body with blades, said investigators. An important part of the oath was each was told they had to pay back, on average, £65,000 to their traffickers. If they breached the oath, they would die, or their families back in Nigeria would die. Investigations continue to track down those responsible for trafficking them out of Nigeria and those passing them through Europe to Ireland. The defendants are said to have properties in South Africa, Bulgaria and Mozambique thought to be worth "millions". At the farmhouse, police found 70 mobile phones, all linked to adverts placed on sexual services websites or in newspapers. Phone records showed 300 calls a day were made or received. "That gives you some idea of the scale", said Tony Fitzpatrick of SOCA Wales. They also found drafted advertisements, one reading: "African Nandi, very petite tanned chocolate delight, petite slim size 8, 34C but leggy flexible kinky, Nandi enjoys nudism and exploring her body and yours making the sessions fun and intimate." Over a period of three months, they spent £5,200 on one telephone bill, running to 5,000 pages. Male clients would phone and be given directions where to go. Unlike traditional massage parlour brothels, Carroll's "closed brothels", were set up in rented flats or houses, and regularly moved around 15 towns in the Republic and three in Northern Ireland so proved particularly challenging for investigators. In one year Carroll, a father of four originally from County Carlow, spent £28,580 on newspaper advertising alone. From 2002 increasing amounts of money were deposited into his daughter's bank account. In 2006 €111,000 were deposited, in 2007 €1.13m and in 2008 €500,000had been deposited by September. Sentencing the defendants, judge Neil Bidder, told them: "I'm not sentencing you for trafficking those women and accept you were unaware of the personal circumstance of the women who worked in your brothels and you were not responsible for any violence and threats of violence. "But the Nigerian women who were threatened with dreadful coercion all ended up working for you. "You did not ask and did not care what personal tragedies had befallen those women submitting for your profit." The multi-agency operation was spearheaded by detectives from Northern Ireland Police Service's Serious Organised Crime branch, in partnership with the Serious Organised Crime Agency and An Garda Siochana. Philips, said: "This was a well organised and lucrative enterprise. The defendants made substantial amount of money from their business which they used to purchase properties in South Africa, Bulgaria and to make a down payment on a property being built in Mozambique. They will now be subject to confiscation proceedings to seize the proceeds of their crime." |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by RichyBlacK(m): 9:46am On Feb 13, 2010 |
See how fraudsters are manipulating the minds of young girls with the longest running fraud in the history of Nigeria - juju! |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by Nobody: 10:06am On Feb 13, 2010 |
shakes head |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by yeswecan(m): 3:57pm On Feb 13, 2010 |
RichyBlacK: I couldn't agree more with the boded phrase. |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by RichyBlacK(m): 10:56pm On Feb 13, 2010 |
yeswecan: But why do my fellow Nigerians still believe in that stuff? |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by Abagworo(m): 11:17pm On Feb 13, 2010 |
RichyBlacK: because only few of us are sane. |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by Str8talk: 11:36pm On Feb 13, 2010 |
@RichyBlack But why do my fellow Nigerians still believe in that stuff? Because there are a lot of illiterates in the country Our home videos promote it And tales of their efficacy abound - OPC, Egbesu boys, Bakassi boys, Niger Delta Militants are supposed to owe their ability to confront armed men (security forces and robbers) to juju Policemen believe it - that is why they tie red rags to their rifles So why should these underaged girls be immune from the beliefs? |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by RichyBlacK(m): 1:24pm On Feb 14, 2010 |
Abagworo: Sanity is not common, true talk. |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by RichyBlacK(m): 1:27pm On Feb 14, 2010 |
Str8talk: It seems like a socially-supported fraud. It's just like the lies we were told about India being the best country in every sport in the world. Even adult Nigerians still believe this lie till today. Only God knows how many Indian friends I've made by telling them this - they always laugh to tears! |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by 4Play(m): 1:45pm On Feb 14, 2010 |
Str8talk: It's not illiteracy because the average literate Nigerian is just as superstitious. It's just an ingrained part of our culture. |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by Nobody: 1:53pm On Feb 14, 2010 |
4 Play: its ingrained in those who have come to know the truth BUT still persist in believing thrash. |
| Re: Juju Fraud: Nigerian Girls Coerced Into Prostitution by marvix(m): 1:59pm On Feb 14, 2010 |
, Mans inhumanity to man, |
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