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Photos: Runaway Nigerian Millionaire Child Exporter, Asemota Franca Charged After Extradition To UK
August 4, 2016 – Pictures: Runaway Nigerian Millionaire Child Exporter Asemota Franca Charged After Extradition To UK
A woman who forced scores of trafficked teenage orphans into the sex trade using the threat of witchcraft faces years in jail.
Franca Asemota, 38, known to her victims as “Auntie Franca”, used Heathrow Airport as a hub to smuggle at least 40 children and young adults into Europe.
A court was told Asemota lured the girls – who were as young as 14 and mainly orphans from remote Nigerian villages – with promises of jobs and education.
She then used “witchcraft”, threats and violence to force them into the European sex trade.
Her audacious gang even managed to snatch back two girls who had been rescued and placed in in foster care in Worthing, West Sussex.
Yesterday, a jury at Isleworth Crown Court convicted Asemota of eight counts of conspiracy to traffick people into sexual exploitation.
Investigators spent around three years trying to locate Asemota until they successfully tracked her down to Nigeria on March 25, 2015, and she was arrested and extradited.
They located her after two girls, who had been placed with foster parents in 2012 in Worthing by the immigration authorities, were kidnapped.
But it took less than 12 hours of deliberation for the jury to find her guilty of the eight conspiracy counts.
They also found her guilty of two counts of trafficking a person out of the UK for sexual exploitation and two counts of assisting unlawful immigration to an EU member state.
Asemota, of no fixed abode, will be sentenced later this month.
[Source: Daily Record]
D Hunter
August 4, 2016 at 5:51 AM
Why did NG have to sensor the faces of the policemen that arrested her?
I take a stroll…
Maryf
August 4, 2016 at 6:14 AM
This type of people are supposed to be in the zoo for ever
betty
August 4, 2016 at 8:59 AM
wicked woman all this for ur own selfish interest. life sentence will teach others a lesson
Big Aunty Koks
August 4, 2016 at 11:17 AM
Na orphans na, who go ask? But God is moving and fighting and has shown up to prove HIMSELF triumphant.
Olaizo
August 4, 2016 at 12:43 PM
See her face, she go still dey believe say her native doctor is at work to get her out, na there she go die coz i count her work of luring young girls into Asewo hustling life as killing, she has killed them already and i know she will have kids as well but will never use dem
fifelomo
August 4, 2016 at 3:06 PM
@D HUNTER, I wonder.
Yinka
August 4, 2016 at 4:41 PM
nonsense. should have been tried and jailed in nigeria. bringing her here is joke jailing jere. rubbish
sola olaniyi
August 5, 2016 at 7:19 AM
@ D Hunter,i wonder too o
Agiripa
August 5, 2016 at 8:12 AM
They should confiscate everything that she and her family has in any part of this world to the last penny, they are the proceeds of crime (innocent human blood), they should also extradite her to serve her jail term in Nigeria. The native doctor that did the juju for her should also be jailed for life. So that others will learn a lesson.