From Poverty in Africa to Sex Slavery in Italy

When 20-year-old Isoke Aikpitanyi was offered a job in Italy in 2000 she leapt at the chance. Life was difficult at home in Nigeria and opportunities for young women were limited and few. She knew that she would have to enter the country illegally and that the promised job would be low-paying and menial — that of a maid or nanny perhaps. But it seemed better than staying home, and the woman who made the job offer would also make the travel arrangements and pay the costs, which Ms. Aikpitanyi would repay from her earnings.

It was only after her arrival in Italy, that things went terribly wrong. Shortly after her arrival, she said, she was told that “foreigners without permits can only do one job in Italy — work the streets” as a prostitute. “They told me I had to pay a debt of $20,000. The week before, they killed a girl who slept in my bedroom because she refused to pay. My resistance only lasted four weeks.”

Failure to work or earn enough, she continued, was punished with violence. One beating left her in a coma for three days. Women who tried to escape were often murdered as a lesson to others. “I was a sex slave. They deceived me to come to Italy for a job that didn’t exist.”
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ISOKE AIKPITANYI'S TESTIMONY
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This video is a re-enactment of what happen in real life to thousands of young Nigerian women, who are enticed to come to Europe with the promise of good jobs...to end up in  prostitution...Help us to raise awareness for this form of slavery. Share our information through your F.B network, churches, work place school etc.