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Police Arrests Couple For Alleged Trafficking, 10 Prostitutes, 10 Male Suspects, Rescues Underage Girls Being Used As $ex Slaves In Delta

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The Police in Delta state has arrested a couple, one Edwin Etareri and Mrs Grace Etariri, for allegedly harbouring underage girls being used as sex slaves in a brothel located in Otu-Jeremi, Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state.

BIGPENNGR.COM reports that the couple were apprehended following a tip off on activities of the brothel on Friday, April 15.

State Commissioner of Police, Ari Mohammed Ali who paraded the suspects alongside twenty prostitutes that were also arrested in the brothel, said that information got to the command at about 23: 30hrs, that Fagoma Hotel located at Aragba in Otokutu in Ughelli South LGA of Delta State is being used as a brothel where underage children are trafficked and used as sex slave.

‘The command upon receiving this disturbing information raided the brothel and rescued five underage girls’.

He mentioned the five underage girls to include; Happiness Johnson ‘f’ age 13yrs, Esther Godspower ‘f’ age 21yrs, Angel John ‘f’ age 22yrs, Miracle Bishop ‘f’ age 19yrs and Happiness Isreal ‘f’ 19yrs.

According to him, investigations revealed that one Joy (female) surname unknown now at large trafficked the underage girls from Rivers State.

She took them to Patani where they were forced into taking an oath before they were brought to Otu-Jeremi and harbored by one Edwin Etareri, the owner of the said brothel and his wife one Mrs Grace Etariri currently in custody’.

‘Ten other male suspects and ten female suspected prostitutes were also arrested during the raid’
He said that investigation is ongoing on the matter.
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