A 16-year-old girl, Chidinma, has narrated to police how she was trafficked from Imo State to Lagos and forced into prostitution for four months, enduring daily abuse before escaping with the help of strangers.
This is the kind of story that makes a police station go silent.
At the Lagos State Police Command, a 16-year-old girl named Chidinma broke down as she recounted four months of horror — trafficked from Imo State to Lagos and forced into prostitution, according to Vanguard.
She said she’d been learning baking back home when a woman she trusted lured her with a fake job offer. “She never told me the work I was coming to do. She only said, ‘You are coming to serve in the office.'” Instead, she was stripped down, drugged, and forced to sleep with up to 60 men a day at a building inside Balogun Market.
“The men paid between N5,000 and N10,000 per session. But my madam usually gave me N1,000 or N1,500,” she said. Any pushback on protection meant brutal punishment: “She would drag me into a room and beat me with an iron rod until I bled.”
Her escape came after her madam allegedly slammed her head against a wall and pulled a knife on her. She fled to Costain, then Surulere, where a popcorn seller helped her reach the Bode Thomas Police Division.
“I am tired. I want to go back to my catering work,” she said.
Police are reportedly investigating, with indications that other girls remain trapped at the same location.
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