Eleven Nigerians, eight women and three men, were arrested
in Turin Friday for allegedly luring Nigerian women to Italy with the promise
of a better life and then forcing them into prostitution to pay back the 25,000
euro a head debt they had contracted.
The young women were
subjected to voodoo rites before crossing the desert to Libya and the sea to
the island of Lampedusa and being moved to migrant reception centres where the
gang picked them up, police said.
Nigerian teenagers
and young women selling sex is a common sight for motorists in Italy. Working
along roadsides and secondary highways in cities big and small, they are a
reminder that while Italy has been successful in curbing immigration from
Libya, it has largely failed to help a fraction of the migrants trafficked as
sex slaves.
Courtesy: ANSA
