{"id":6720,"date":"2020-05-15T15:53:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2020-05-15T15:53:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T15:53:36","slug":"nigerian-born-french-fugitive-jessica-edosomwan-is-europes-most-wanted-woman-recruits-17-young-girls-from-small-towns-in-nigeria-promising-to-fund-their-journey-to-western-europe-compel-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/nigerian-born-french-fugitive-jessica-edosomwan-is-europes-most-wanted-woman-recruits-17-young-girls-from-small-towns-in-nigeria-promising-to-fund-their-journey-to-western-europe-compel-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian born French Fugitive, JESSICA EDOSOMWAN is Europe’s Most Wanted Woman …Recruits 17 young girls from small towns in Nigeria promising to fund their journey to Western Europe * Compel young Nigerian girls to pay a debt of 50,000 to 60,000 euros each, entrusted victims to an older woman who supervise and collect money from them * Victims, housed, fed in bad conditions at exorbitant prices, prostituted in streets or trucks. Money recovered and sent back to Nigeria through a traditional informal payment system. Prosecutors estimate girls aged 17 to 38, made up to 150,000 euros a month for the syndicate, selling sex for as little as 10 euros * ‘Most of the women come from Benin City, a centre of human trafficking, and many told investigators they had made the dangerous journey across the Sahara Desert to Libya, then across the Mediterranean to Italy before ending up in Lyon’-Investigation * \u201cJessica Edosomwan, a Nigerian citizen who escaped after police raided a prostitution ring in Lyon, is wanted by French authorities. Jessica has been on the run, but she is believed to be hiding either in the Benelux countries, Italy or Germany\u201d- European Police Office * BY GEORGE ELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A Nigerian defendant waits in the courtroom prior to the start of a trial of a prostitution network case in Lyon, central eastern France, on November 6, 2019. – 19 Nigerian people and a French one, are facing a sentence up to ten years in prison for their role into a huge prostitution network of Nigerian women into France. (Photo by ROMAIN LAFABREGUE \/ AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nigerian\nborn French Fugitive, JESSICA EDOSOMWAN is Europe’s Most Wanted Woman<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

…Recruits\n17 young girls from small towns in Nigeria promising to fund their\njourney to Western Europe<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nCompel young Nigerian girls to pay a debt of 50,000 to 60,000 euros\neach, entrusted victims to an older woman who supervise and collect\nmoney from them<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nVictims, housed, fed in bad conditions at exorbitant prices,\nprostituted in streets or trucks. Money recovered and sent back to\nNigeria through a traditional informal payment system. <\/strong>Prosecutors\nestimate girls aged 17 to 38, made up to 150,000 euros a month for\nthe syndicate, selling sex for as little as 10 euros<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n‘Most of the women come from Benin City, a centre of human\ntrafficking, and many told investigators they had made the dangerous\njourney across the Sahara Desert to Libya, then across the\nMediterranean to Italy before ending up in Lyon’-Investigation <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n *\n\u201cJessica Edosomwan, a Nigerian citizen who escaped after police\nraided a prostitution ring in Lyon, is wanted by French authorities.\nJessica has been on the run, but she is believed to be hiding either\nin the Benelux countries, Italy or Germany\u201d- European Police Office<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/strong>\n* BY GEORGE\nELIJAH OTUMU\/AMERICAN FOREIGN BUREAU CHIEF<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SHE\nIS EUROPE’S MOST WANTED WOMAN on the run for justice. JESSICA\nEDOSOMWAN, a Nigerian born French resident is a fugitive on the watch\nlist of European Police, Europol for creating a twenty-four persons\nsex trafficking ring forcing Nigerian women into prostitution in\nFrance. She give falsified hopes to young girls in Benin City, Edo\nstate of a better life in Europe, unknowingly for the recruits they\nare being used as pawns and resource generation for Jessica. <\/strong>\n<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost\neveryone in her gang had been arrested, with only Jessica on the run.\nHer <\/strong>sex\ntrafficking ring had been busted and they had been placed<\/strong>\n<\/strong>on\ntrial <\/strong>since\nlate last year<\/strong>\nin the city of Lyon. Jessica ha<\/strong>s<\/strong>\nbeen tried in absentia. Here\u2019s why the Nigerian was declared by\nEuropol (European Police Office) as its most wanted female suspect.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Edosomwan\nis currently wanted for prosecution by the French judicial\nauthorities in an international case of human trafficking and\nsmuggling network. She is alleged to be a member of a criminal\nnetwork from Nigeria, operating in all the major cities in France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisation\nis alleged to have recruited young girls from small towns in Nigeria\nby promising to fund their journey to Western Europe. Once they\ncontracted this debt, the girls were allegedly subjected to a\nreligious (juju) rite, which \u201cprovided the criminal network leader,\noften a religious, a strong psychological hold and a means of\npressure on their families in the country\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nthey arrived in France, the young Nigerian girls had to pay a debt of\n50,000 to 60,000 euros each. They were then entrusted to an older\nwoman who was in charge of supervising them and collecting the money.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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