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Woman Lured With Fake Italian Job Ends Up In Ritualists’ Den In Ondo, Impregnated By Abductors

A 24-year-old lady simply identified as Mercy, who is based in Warri, Delta State, has escaped from a den of ritual killers after being lured with a fake lucrative job offer in Italy.

SaharaReporters learnt that the victim, who lost her father as a baby and was abandoned by her mother at 11 months, was told by a friend that there was a woman in Lagos State ready to sponsor them to Italy to work as sales attendants in stores and stewards for rich clients.

Mercy was made to believe that the salary was good and that they could pay for the travel expenses when they reached Italy and had started earning.

Desperate for a new life away from Warri where she endured an abusive relationship that produced a son, the 24-year-old lady did not inform her guardian, Maureen Eriyo, before leaving for Lagos State in October 2020 with her friend, who was also lured and tricked to believe the trip was real.

Their journey to Italy was to start immediately after they arrived in Lagos and met with the sponsor of their trip.

But things took a different turn when Mercy and her friend, who is now deceased, finally linked up with team of the woman that was to take them to Europe in a house around Surulere, a Lagos suburb.

"Mercy and her friend were given laced juice to drink when they arrived at the place they were to meet with the person, who promised to take them to Italy. They became unconscious for hours and only realised that they were in danger when they found themselves in a forest.

"Mercy summoned the courage to ask the men who had guns to take them out of the place but they beat her so much that she fainted," Eriyo told SaharaReporters on Tuesday.

The days that followed that period were hellish for Mercy and the other ladies, who found themselves in the forest and at the receiving end of the cruelty dished out by the gun-wielding men.

Apart from being subjected to several hours of rape daily, the victims of the abduction and ritual killing network were made to endure hunger for several days.

They were only given two slices of bread once in three days and made to drink from a dirty pond inside the forest.

Mercy and many of the victims fell sick at various times while in captivity with some of them dying in the process.

"Many of the young ladies lured by this syndicate died of hunger and diseases from the dirty water they drank while in the forest.

"Their body parts were sold to ritualists who constantly demanded such. A lady who got pregnant and delivered there died but the baby survived. The gang used the innocent child for rituals along with the mother's body.

"The place was a forest of death where no victim ever came out alive. The area was fortified and watched by of this syndicate who all had sophisticated guns with them," Eriyo added.

After spending around nine months inside this den, Mercy, her late friend and two others summoned the courage to escape from the place despite the presence of the gun-wielding men in various sections of the forest.

One day, after those guarding the place, were excessively high on drugs and alcohol and had dozed off, a handful of the victims escaped from the place.

They walked for three days inside the forest before getting to an expressway where a truck driver transporting food items to Lagos reluctantly carried them in his vehicle to the city.

The friend, who introduced the Italy trip to Mercy, did not make it out of the forest – she died while they were escaping from the place.

"Mercy is still in shock over everything she went through inside that forest. She returned to Warri last Thursday and gave birth by Caesarean section on Sunday.

"She was impregnated by her captors, who took turns to rape her and other ladies in the bush. Others like her who got pregnant in that forest and delivered there had their babies collected from them for ritual purposes.

"The trauma and pain are still fresh for her because many times she screams from her sleep, afraid that those people in the forest would come back to take her. The situation is affecting her mentally.

"She needs a lot of help to overcome the pain. I am trying my best to her in ways I can but she needs great help.

"She is still in the hospital after giving birth by CS. Her health is of great concern to us because she has high blood pressure at the moment. She needs urgent assistance and intervention in various forms," Eriyo said.

Trafficking in persons in Nigeria has been a major issue for years with the government failing to tackle the situation to a halt despite public outcry.

While in the past ladies were mostly taken to Italy, Spain and other European countries for prostitution, these days such persons after being lured by the syndicate in this illicit business, end up as sex slaves in Asian countries or killed for ritual purposes in Nigeria.

According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, an estimated 750,000 to one million persons are trafficked annually in Nigeria.

The organisation went on to say that over 75 per cent of those trafficked are taken across the states, 23 per cent within states while two per cent are moved outside the country.

http://saharareporters.com/2021/11/30/nigerian-woman-lured-fake-italian-job-ends-ritualists%E2%80%99-den-ondo-impregnated-abductors

The minute you just tell an average Warri and Benin girls that you have a job in Italy, Belgium or for them, they don't bother asking the nature of the job, as long as they hear that they would be paid in Euros, they are ready to damn any consequences... Same also applies to the average Ilorin and Osogbo girls anytime they hear Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.


80% of these young girls know it's prostitution they're going to do over there and most of them have become vulnerable, used as slaves and later turn them to sacrificial items.


The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and National Orientation Agency (NOA) should do more to sensitive those states where human trafficking is rampant.

But why show her face when she's the victim

If Nigeria was conducive would anybody be looking for greener pastures? Chai...it will never be well with our leader (both past and present) for making us slaves and victims of poverty

Oh nooo.

This country is messed up already.. Na governmental sanitation we need nao ooo.. Insecurity is alarming its even as if we no get any security agencies at all.. When they see money their own don don...

Maxymilliano:
But why show her face when she's the victim

E tire me oh

ReoCoker:
The minute you just tell an average Warri and Benin girls that you have a job in Italy, Belgium or for them, they don't bother asking the nature of the job, as long as they hear that they would be paid in Euros, they are ready to damn any consequences... Same also applies to the average Ilorin and Osogbo girls anytime they here Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman.


80% of these young girls know it's prostitution they're going to do over there and most of them have become vulnerable, used as slaves and later turn them to sacrificial items.


The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and National Orientation Agency (NOA) should do more to sensitive those states where human trafficking is rampant.

So sad. Most of these ladies are just so lazy and want the best things money can buy!

Country is messed up we that are suppose to gather together and plan the next move are busy throwing tantrums


But hiw did we get here that has been my question all this while

How many months did she spend in the forest?

Pathetic

I'm tired.

Terrible

Nawa

Hmm

BabbanBura:


So sad. Most of these ladies are just so lazy and want the best things money can buy!

I would have agreed with you if there was an abundance of job in Nigeria. Most of them aren't lazy. They are just desperate. And many are not as enlightened as you are to appreciate the attendant dangers of those jobs. Some are desperate enough to damn the consequences.

Trust me if there are enough jobs for people to do in Nigeria, most of these stories will reduce.

Na waah o...
If Nigeria was in a better state, had a reasonable economy and people had stable jobs... tell me is it an Italian Job that can lure someone out of his house to unknown waters??

The Day Nigeria elects a leader who is a visionarie, is the day wahala will end.

Wishing the victimized lady a quick recovery...

The criminal left evidence that can be used to trace him. If they want to catch the ritualist, they should just do a random paternity DNA test in that area, once she delivers her baby.

I am 23 yrs old, a young lad, civil servant and goal oriented mind...

I want a roomie in Owerri....preferable self con in a place that has little or no electricity problem, good road and good water system

I am ready to split rent and other bills.

Kindly indicate interest if you are game .

The days are evil, as the devil is working so hard, to kill and to distoy mankind through some evileous men.

From Ogun to ondo



Aphonja boys on the loose


Everybody want to be a criminal like Tinubu

Apart from being subjected to several hours of rape daily, the victims of the abduction and ritual killing network were made to endure hunger for several days

I hate the act. Even in movies, I fast forward rape scenes because it hurts my feelings. I'm afraid I would commit a murder if I stumble on any rapist in action,,,, unless he wields a gun.

Nawa o

KillAlabi2021:
From Ogun to ondo



Aphonja boys on the loose


Everybody want to be a criminal like Tinubu

stop it...

Ammishaddai:
If Nigeria was conducive would anybody be looking for greener pastures? Chai...it will never be well with our leader (both past and present) for making us slaves and victims of poverty

That sounds like a lame excuse