A Nigerian-born mental health nurse, Florence Obadiaru, was on Tuesday banned from practising in the UK after she was convicted for her role in using another Nigerian as a sex slave, and threatened her victim with black magic.
Earlier in July 2014, the 50-year-old was jailed alongside two other Nigerians, Olusoji Oluwafemi and Johnson Olayinka, who conspired with her and took a 23-year-old Nigerian girl to Europe to sell sex in Italy’s streets.
British media reported that Nursing and Midwifery Council disciplinary after hearing the role the 50-year-old nurse played in the forced prostitution on Tuesday banned her from practising nursing.
It was said that before leaving Nigeria the victim was raped and subjected to a ‘ju-ju’ death ritual where gang members told her if she did not pay them £40,000 she would die.
She was promised a job in the UK so she could repay the debt, but when she arrived she was kept at Obadiaru’s house, sexually assaulted and told she was destined to work as a sex slave in Italy.
The ‘horrific’ plan was only thwarted when Italian authorities spotted the victim’s forged ID and sent her back to the UK.
Obadiaru was jailed for two years in July 2014 after being convicted of trafficking the woman into the UK for sexual exploitation and arranging for her transfer to Italy.
She has now been struck-off the nursing register after a Nursing and Midwifery Council disciplinary hearing.
According to Daily Mail, the chairman of the panel Robert Barnwell said: ‘You have been convicted of conspiracy to commit a deplorable and horrific crime in which a young woman was trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation, and your conviction goes to the very core of the principles involved in nursing care.
‘The public interest element in this case is high, and it is important to mark this case and send a clear message that a conviction of such a crime is unacceptable.
‘You are a mental health nurse who treats vulnerable individuals, however you failed to help a vulnerable woman who desperately required rescuing.’
