Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Enslaved in our own backyard | Local | News | Welland Tribune

On a cold November day in 2007, 17-year-old “Eve” summoned the courage to escape her captor and call police after two and a half years of sexual slavery.

She led them to a motel room where her trafficker kept another girl, a 14-year-old, also as a sexual slave.
“Eve” is a pseudonym for a girl whose story was documented in news reports, court documents and an academic study on slavery. Her bravery led to Canada’s first ever human trafficking conviction—a 26-year-old Niagara Falls man.
Imani Nakpangi had forced Eve, through beatings and threats, into selling sex to up to 15 men a day, many of whom booked her services through Craigslist ads.
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