Pushed to go by her family who hoped she would lift them out of poverty, Mary ended up being trafficked into prostitution. Her voice faltering, Mary described three years of being forced to sell her body, beatings, threats at gunpoint and being made to watch as a 14-year-old virgin was raped with a carrot before being sent on to the streets of Turin in northwest Italy. After being arrested by Italian police, Mary was repatriated to Nigeria’s southern Edo state in 2001, but she was rejected by her family and left feeling like a failure. “I returned with nothing,” Mary, now 35, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation from Benin city in Edo. “I hated myself.” While Mary’s ordeal ended 15 years ago, a soaring number of Nigerian girls like her are being trafficked to Europe – mainly Italy – and forced to sell sex by gangs taking advantage of the chaos caused by the migrant crisis, anti-slavery activists say. Thousands of women and girls are lured to Europe each year with the promise of work, then trapped by huge debts and bound to their traffickers by a religious ritual – the curse of juju. “The victims are getting younger as… Read full this story
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