{"id":147794,"date":"2018-06-28T18:27:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/nurse-guilty-of-sex-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:27:46","slug":"nurse-guilty-of-sex-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/nurse-guilty-of-sex-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse guilty of sex trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"JosephineImage copyright National Crime Agency
Image caption Josephine Iyamu will be sentenced at Birmingham Crown Court next week <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Josephine Iyamu forced the women to swear oaths to hand over money to her during "juju" ceremonies.<\/p>\n

Iyamu, 51, formerly of Bermondsey, was convicted of five counts of arranging or facilitating travel for sexual exploitation at Birmingham Crown Court.<\/p>\n

Jurors also found her guilty of perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n

The rituals saw the women forced to eat chicken hearts, drink blood containing worms, and have powder rubbed into cuts, the court heard.<\/p>\n

Iyamu is the first person to be convicted under Modern Slavery Act laws passed in 2015, allowing prosecutions of British citizens for overseas sexual trafficking.<\/p>\n

Her husband, 60-year-old Efe Ali-Imaghodor, was acquitted of doing acts intending to pervert the course of justice.<\/p>\n

Psychological control<\/h2>\n

Iyamu declared a modest income of around \u00a314,500 in 2016\/17 from her work as an NHS agency nurse, the court heard.<\/p>\n

But after her arrest last year investigators found she was able to afford to spend thousands on air travel and a large home in Benin City, Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Image copyright National Crime Agency
Image caption Iyamu had a large home in Benin City in Nigeria <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prosecutor Simon Davis said by performing rituals Iyamu gained psychological control over the women.<\/p>\n

The National Crime Agency (NCA) said Iyamu had "enlisted the help of a voodoo priest" to put the women through a "juju" ceremony which was "designed to exert control" over them.<\/p>\n

The victims and their families were threatened with serious harm if they broke their oath to Iyamu, according to the NCA.<\/p>\n

The court heard Iyamu was "willing to put the women at risk of serious injury and or death as they made their journey from Nigeria to Europe".<\/p>\n

They were too afraid to challenge her or fail to pay her back tens of thousands of Euros she charged them to be trafficked into Germany, the court was told.<\/p>\n

Opening the case, Mr Davis said: "The debts incurred by the women were enforced through fear. <\/p>\n

"Each of the women were put through what is known to some as a voodoo ceremony."<\/p>\n

Iyamu, who was born in Liberia, will be sentenced on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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