The Assize Court of Reggio Calabria ha condemned a 20 years of prison Sonia Osazeea 41 year old Nigerian woman accused of human trafficking, enslavement, exploitation of prostitution and sexual violence.
The sentence, which was issued today by the president Natina Practicedhe inflicted 9 years of imprisonment also to Sunday EdioransOf 31 years oldalso a Nigerian who was only responsible for the crime of human trafficking.
The trial was born from an investigation by the Reggio Calabria Flying Squad following the complaint of the young Nigerian woman who was first subjected to the “juju rite” and then, once she arrived in Italy on the boat, she ended up on a sidewalk in Castel Volturno, in the province of Caserta, where she was forced into prostitution to pay for the journey.
According to the investigation, in fact, Sonia Osazee “recruited, introduced into the territory of the State and hosted the injured party over whom – as stated in the indictment – he exercised powers corresponding to the right of ownership, maintaining her in a state of continuous subjection and forcing her to perform sexual work, with threats (of killing her family of origin and making her return to Nigeria), deception (having represented to her that she would come to undertake studies), abuse of authority (for being older), taking advantage of a situation of vulnerability, physical and mental inferiority and a situation of necessity“.
Reported in the 2020, the facts refer to 2016 when, under the illusion of making her undertake her studies, the victim had landed in Reggio Calabria. Realizing that she had been deceived, the girl tried to escape several times and, when she expressed her intention to contact the police, Sonia Osazee “he had her transferred to Germany, precisely to Karlsruhe, – we read again in the investigation papers – by having her brother Sunday Ediorans accompany her by train to an unidentified sister, named Juliet, also ‘madame’, with the intent to make her continue her prostitution activity“. A story reconstructed during the closing speech by prosecutor Sara Amerio and which, in recent months, was told in court by the victim herself.
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