{"id":4638,"date":"2013-06-02T20:24:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T20:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/spain-smashes-nigerians-voodoo-prostitution-ring\/"},"modified":"2013-06-02T20:24:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-02T20:24:55","slug":"spain-smashes-nigerians-voodoo-prostitution-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/spain-smashes-nigerians-voodoo-prostitution-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain smashes Nigerians\u2019 voodoo prostitution ring"},"content":{"rendered":"
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. The ladies lured into prostitution are from Benin City<\/strong><\/p>\n Spanish police said Sunday they had broken up a ring that smuggled in women from Nigeria and forced them into street prostitution by burning them with irons and using voodoo rituals.<\/p>\n Police arrested six Nigerian nationals, including the suspected woman ringleader, as part of an investigation launched last year after one of the prostitutes filed a complaint with the authorities.<\/p>\n “The control exercised over women was total, involving verbal threats as well as physical violence and various voodoo ceremonies to terrorise them,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n “The ring caused them serious injury through bites or by using an iron to cause second-degree burns.”<\/p>\n The ring recruited women in Benin City, Edo State, whose husbands and fathers had died and who were struggling to raise their children. <\/p>\n