A Nigerian recycling worker allegedly smuggled young children into
Britain before brainwashing them with African witchcraft to try and
force them into prostitution.
According to Daily Mail: Osezua Elvis Osolase, 42, is accused of 13
offences of trafficking, molest, false imprisonment and sexual activity
with a child. He allegedly cast spells over his three victims, all
originally from Nigeria, using juju magic rituals in order to stop them
from running away, a court has heard.
He is also alleged to made
loveually assaulted the girls - who are now aged 15, 17 and 18 - and it
is believed he has many more victims.
Juju refers to
traditional West African religions involving objects of superstition and
witchcraft. In one case, the court heard, Osolase took the
17-year-old-girl to a place of 'witchcraft' in April last year and
forced her to bathe using a red cloth and blood. The girl then had her
armpit hair cut, toe and finger nails cut and blood was taken from her
right hand before she was told the spell would kill her if she tried to
run away.
During the opening of the eight week trial today,
Canterbury Crown Court heard the three girls were shipped to the UK from
Nigeria in preparation for being sold as prostitutes in Italy.
Sara
Ellis, prosecuting, said: 'This case involves allegations in respect of
three young Nigerian girls who were trafficked from Nigeria into the UK
in order to traffic them out of the UK and to Europe for the purposes
of prostitution. 'In this case the complainants were subjected to juju
rituals in an effort to ensure that they would do as they were told,
that they would not run away, that they would repay the defendant and
that they would never reveal the truth about what really happened to
them and the ordeals to which they were subjected for fear of death or
serious harm. You will hear something about juju ceremonies during
the trial and the very powerful effect that they can have on people like
the complainants in this case.' The court heard Osolase, who lives with
a German woman in Gravesend, Kent, had found his alleged 17-year-old
victim begging on the streets of Nigeria.
The former security
guard told her would take her to Britain to help her get an education.
Ms Ellis said: 'He called himself ‘Victor’ and took her to a large house
- a place she described as a "place of witchcraft". 'There she was
given what she described as "native port", a mixture which looked like
blood and a red cloth. 'She was told to use this liquid to bathe and to
tie a cloth around herself after doing so. 'A man came and cut hair
under her armpits and finger and toenails and blood from her right hand.
'She was told this was to ensure she did not run away and would repay
Victor. 'She said it was an "oath" and if she ran away the charm would
find her. 'She was told that if she ran away or didn’t pay that she
would die. She believed it.' Ms Ellis told the court the 17-year-old was
then given a passport - which had been lost by its genuine owner some
years earlier - and flown to the UK then Italy.
However, when
she reached the airport she refused to go through customs and begged
Italian officials for help, the court heard. The prosecutor said the
teenager was returned to Stansted Airport, Essex, where she eventually
admitted to being Nigerian. The same month the 15-year-old was alleged
to have been brought to the UK and taken to Osolase’s home where she
claimed she was sexually abused. Ms Ellis said that she was also taken
along with the 17-year-old and sent to Italy again with a stolen
passport. In July the 18-year-old arrived in Britain and was locked
inside a flat and told she was going to Italy to meet “her madam” and to
work as a prostitute, the court heard.
The prosecution claimed
that an investigation of Osolase’s travelling in Europe revealed that
the three were not his only victims. The trial at Canterbury Crown Court
is expected to last eight weeks and among the prosecution witnesses
will be an expert in juju.
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