Osolase — juju sex-trafficking conviction (20 yrs)

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KentOnline (2013) 'Security guard who made £80k using juju magic to trick girls into slavery must pay just £8', KentOnline. Available at: kentonline.co.uk (Accessed: 14 July 2026).

'Osezua Osolase, of Beaumont Drive, was convicted of five counts of trafficking for sexual purposes, raping one of his victims and having sexual activity with a child... The judge said the former guard at a trendy London fashion shop had used juju magic to ensure their obedience and silence... He had terrified the young orphan girls into believing they could die if they ever revealed they were being shipped out to Italy and Spain to work as prostitutes. Osolase, 43, who is serving a 20-year jail sentence has also been given eight weeks to arrange for the bank transfer.'

Ikeora, M. (2016) 'The Role of African Traditional Religion and 'Juju' in Human Trafficking: Implications for Anti-trafficking', Journal of International Women's Studies, 17(1), pp. 1-18. Available at: humantraffickingsearch.org (Accessed: 29 June 2024). [archived copy]

'Elements within African traditional religion, popularly and often wrongfully termed 'Juju,' proffer a method of control often used by certain traffickers to keep their victims in perpetual bondage. The data used in this article was derived from extensive fieldwork in Nigeria and the United Kingdom (UK) where forty-six (46) anti-trafficking stakeholders, including victims, were interviewed. The data indicates that this control mechanism was present in several cases of human trafficking from Nigeria, serving to impede effective investigations and the prosecution of traffickers... This form of control hinders the protection, prosecution, and prevention of trafficking due to the limited knowledge of law enforcement authorities and relevant anti-trafficking practitioners in dealing with the peculiarities of cases within this particular context... In a recent case occurring in the United Kingdom in 2012, a Nigerian, Osezua Osalase, was convicted in the Canterbury Crown Court in the UK for inter alia trafficking of two young Nigerian orphan girls for sexual exploitation. The victims were raped, sexually abused, and subjected to an oath-taking ritual to control them as victims of trafficking. It was reported that Osalase told the teenage girls that they would die or never bear children if they tried to escape or reveal what had happened to them.'