PUNCH
A socialite, identified simply as Madam Success, has been remanded in prison for allegedly luring four female students into prostitution in Delta State.
The defendant was arraigned on Friday before a magistrates’ court, where she was denied bail and remanded.
PUNCH Metro learnt that the victims were lured by the suspect from Akwa Ibom State to Agbor, Delta State, on the pretext of making them sales girls.
The students, aged between 13 and 15 years, were said to have been put in a brothel and made to sleep with at least five men daily.
Our correspondent learnt that the Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Children Welfare, Ify Obinabo, rescued the four female students in Onitsha, where their trafficker kept them en route to Delta State.
The Media Assistant to Obinabo, Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, told journalists that the commissioner, working with the police, stormed a motor park in Onitsha on a tip-off and rescued the girls.
Ikeanyionwu, in a press statement, disclosed that Madam Success was arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrates’ Court, Awka, Anambra State.