The
Economist magazine is reporting on Twitter that over 11,000 women from
Nigeria landed in Sicily in 2016 alone and most of that number are into
involuntary flesh trade.
One of the most notorious North-South rackets involves transporting
young women, often minors, for s*x work in Italy and beyond from
Nigeria, in particular the southern area around Benin City.
That part of the country has a powerful Christian presence, from
Catholic to Pentecostal, but it is also a stronghold of traditional
animist practices, including witchcraft. Its s*x-slave trade has existed
for three decades but it seems to have burgeoned recently.
The International Organisation for Migration estimatesthat in 2016,
some 11,100 Nigerian women landed in Sicily, and 80% entered a life of
forced prostitution.
Coerced by friends and Family to sort better life abroad, most of
the victims are preteen girls of 14 , 13 and 20 sold false situation of
jobs they would be doing, and forced to swear to secrecy via diabolic
means.
This troubling stat was part of the Magazine's recent publication on forced labour and chuman trafficking.
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