24-yr-old girl bags 7 years imprisonment for traff#cking other girls to Mali for pr@stitution
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A Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi, Benue State has sentenced a 24-year-old woman, Mercy Sese, to 7 years in prison with the option of N4.5m fine for traff#cking young girls to Mali for pr@stitution.
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The presiding judge, Justice AbduDogo sentenced the accused on Wednesday, May 11, after she pleaded guilty to a 7 count charge preferred against her for the offence of organizing foreign trips for young girls to Mali for s£xual exploitation.
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The offence contrary is to sections 18, 27 and 29 of the Traff#cking in persons (Prohibition) enforcement and administration act 2015. Recall that in January 2022, the Makurdi Zonal Command of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Person, NAPTIP, arrested Sese at a popular motor park in Makurdi
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