{"id":147693,"date":"2018-06-28T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/voodoo-nurse-josephine-iyamu-guilty-of-sex-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T13:21:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:21:00","slug":"voodoo-nurse-josephine-iyamu-guilty-of-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/voodoo-nurse-josephine-iyamu-guilty-of-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Voodoo&#8217; nurse Josephine Iyamu guilty of sex trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Birmingham Crown Court\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/8801\/production\/_101071843_crown.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Google Maps<figcaption>Image caption                                      Josephine Iyamu will be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court next week                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A British nurse has been convicted of trafficking five Nigerian women into Germany to work as prostitutes after subjecting them to voodoo rituals.<\/p>\n<p>Josephine Iyamu forced the women to swear oaths to hand over money to her during &quot;juju&quot; ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p>Iyamu, 51, formerly of Bermondsey, was convicted of five counts of arranging or facilitating travel for sexual exploitation at Birmingham Crown Court.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors also found her guilty of perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n<p>The voodoo rituals saw the women forced to eat chicken hearts, drink blood containing worms, and have powder rubbed into cuts, the court heard.<\/p>\n<p>The case is the first in England and Wales in which a British citizen has been prosecuted for sexual trafficking offences committed outside the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Iyamu, who was born in Liberia, will be sentenced on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Google MapsImage caption Josephine Iyamu will be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court next week A British nurse has been convicted of trafficking five Nigerian women into Germany to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}