REGGIO CALABRIA Her name is Sonia Osazee, 41 years old, the Nigerian woman to whom the Court of Assizes of Reggio Calabria – President Natina Pratticò – has imposed 20 years of imprisonment for exploitation of prostitution, human trafficking, sexual violence and enslavement of one of her fellow countrywomen. With her, the Assize Court has his accomplice sentenced Sunday Ediorans, 31, also Nigerian, to nine years of imprisonment. The trial was the result of an investigation by the Reggio Calabria Flying Squad in 2016, following a complaint from a young Nigerian woman who had been subjected to the “juju rite” (a religious rite of coercion that initiates Nigerian migrant women into the so-called “slavery from debt” to pay for the journey to reach Europe) who, having arrived in Italy on a boat, had been forced to prostitute herself in Castel Volturno to repay the debt contracted in Nigeria. Sonia Osazee, according to the procedural documents «recruited, introduced into the territory of the State and hosted the offended person over whom she exercised powers corresponding to the right to property, forcing her to perform sexual services, with the threat of killing her family of origin and making her return to Nigeria.” After landing in Reggio Calabriathe victim understood that he had been deceived, trying several times to escape from the Osazee-Ediorans couple and threatening to report everything to the police. Sonia Osazee, according to the investigation, feeling in danger, moved the girl to Karlsruhe, Germany, under the escort of her brother, entrusting her to a Nigerian “madame” to force her to prostitute herself again. The State Police, with its intervention, managed to break the chains of slavery of the young Nigerian, obtaining the convictions of her tormentors.
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