LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – A 35-year-old woman identified as Success James has bagged multiple jail terms in Anambra State for luring four teenage girls into prostitution.
The Anambra State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Mrs. Ify Obinabo, had in an interview she had two days to the 2022 Christmas celebration, stated that they apprehended four girls aged between 13 and 15 years in Onitsha, who were into prostitution.
“The girls confessed that a certain Madam Success, lured them into prostitution, under the guise of getting them a job in a restaurant in Agbor, Delta State.”
Obinabo had led security operatives to arrest Madam Success, who was also brought to trial in a Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence court in Awka, Anambra State.
The suspect was tried for offences of child labour, child exploitation, abduction of children and child stealing.
Chief Magistrate, Genevieve Osakwe who delivered judgement on the matter on Wednesday, 8 February, 2023, found Success James guilty of all the charges.
She is being sent to a correctional facility in Akwa, for multiple jail terms, ranging between one year and four years for all the charges.
However, the Chief Magistrate declared that all the sentences would run concurrently, without any option of fine.