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Six life sentences and an additional 129 years imprisonment was meted out to a Nigerian national for human trafficking and related charges after he kept three young girls hostage to work as sex slaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\nJudge Natvarlil Ranchod, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, on Wednesday cited experts as saying that human trafficking is increasing worldwide. It not only caused trauma to the victims, but also to communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Criminals view it as a thriving business as sex slaves \u2013 often young girls \u2013 can be used over and over to generate money for their brothel masters.<\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\nBut the judge made it clear that the court viewed human trafficking in an extremely serious light and it will be met with the harshest sentences possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The court heard evidence behind closed doors for months from, among others, three young victims around the age of 13 and 14, who
were lured from the streets by recruits \u2013 other young girls \u2013 used by brothel master Ediozi Odi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Judge Natvarlil Ranchod, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, on Wednesday cited experts as saying that human trafficking is increasing worldwide. It not only caused trauma to the victims, but also to communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Criminals view it as a thriving business as sex slaves \u2013 often young girls \u2013 can be used over and over to generate money for their brothel masters.<\/ins><\/ins><\/p>\n\n\n\n But the judge made it clear that the court viewed human trafficking in an extremely serious light and it will be met with the harshest sentences possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The court heard evidence behind closed doors for months from, among others, three young victims around the age of 13 and 14, who Six life sentences and an additional 129 years imprisonment was meted out to a Nigerian national for human trafficking and related charges after he kept three young girls hostage to work as sex slaves. Judge Natvarlil Ranchod, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, on Wednesday cited experts as saying that human trafficking is […]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"tpgb_global_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-trafficking","category-news"],"tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/proces_small.jpg",800,576,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/proces_small.jpg",700,504,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/proces_small-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/proces_small-300x216.jpg",300,216,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/proces_small-768x553.jpg",768,553,true],"large":["https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/proces_small.jpg",800,576,false],"default":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"September 19, 2019","get_modified_date":"September 19, 2019","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Human Trafficking","slug":"human-trafficking","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Human Trafficking News and Updates","parent":0,"count":61,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":19,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":238,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":false,"post_format":false},"author_name":"Hope To Heal","author_url":"https:\/\/site.hopetoheal.org.za\/staging\/author\/hope2233\/","author_email":"webmaster@hopetoheal.org.za","author_website":"","author_description":"Our mission is for women and children to live free from violence and abuse and to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing domestic violence and child abuse and to lead the struggle to end domestic violence through advocacy and community education.","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":["administrator"],"author_firstname":"Hope To","author_lastname":"Heal Foundation","user_login":"Hope2233","author_avatar":"
were lured from the streets by recruits \u2013 other young girls \u2013 used by brothel master Ediozi Odi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"