Court sentences Nigerian who kidnapped girl, fed her drugs and kept her as a sex slave
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A Nigerian national who kidnapped a young girl, fed her drugs and forced her to have sex with up to six men a day over a three-month period has been sentenced in the Gauteng North High Court.
The National Prosecuting Authority said Augustine Omini Obono was charged with human trafficking, rape, statutory rape and sexual exploitation.
NPA spokesperson Lumka Mahanjana said Obono was also found guilty of kidnapping and keeping a brothel.
Mahanjana said in September 2016, the girl was at a park in Derdepoort for a picnic with her friends when she met a woman who asked her to accompany her to a flat in Sunnyside, Pretoria, where she would meet a man.
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