UK
based Josephine Iyamu has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after she was
found guilty of trafficking 5 Nigerian girls to Germany.
According
to the BBC, Josephine forced her victims to swear oaths to hand over money to
her, making them eat chicken hearts, drink blood containing worms, and have
powder rubbed into cuts.
The
Cable reports that 51-year-old Josephine had been campaigning to become a
lawmaker in the Edo state house of assembly under the aegis of the All
Progressives Party (APC).
Judge
Richard Bond, during the sentencing, said Josephine showed “a complete
disregard for the welfare of these women.”
She
had exposed them to “real and significant” risk of death, he said, by making
them travel on inflatable boats across the Mediterranean.
“You
saw them not as living, breathing human beings but as commodities to earn you
large sums of money,” he said.
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