By Kamsi Anayo, Awka
No fewer than 35 underaged female sex slaves were rescued by the police in a hotel in Anambra state.
The victims were paraded on Wednesday at Onitsha Area Police Command along with nine arrested workers of the hotel and handed over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) officials by the police.
The Commissioner of Police, Echeng. Eworo Echeng said that N877, 500 was recovered from the hotel, Gally-Gally, Umusiome, Nkpor, Idemili North Local Goverment Area of the state.
The owner of the facility being used for the crime is said to be on the run.
The Commissioner, represented by the state police command Public Relations Officer, Ikenga Tochukwu, said four of the girls between 14 and 17 who were rescued on June 13 from the hotel were already pregnant.
He said the arrested workers including two gatemen who man the hotel gate to prevent the girls from going out were helping the police investigation.
He said that three pump action guns and seven cartridges were recovered from the gatemen.
Echeng said the girls had confessed of being given N300 daily by the hotel owner for feeding without knowing the actual amount made from clients in the sex slave business.
He urged parents and guardians to always have deliberate relationship with their children.
“Know their whereabouts, look out for them, parental failure contribute to this bad behavior by our children,” he said.
