A church pastor has been jailed for 11 and a half years after being found guilty of trafficking children into the UK for use as domestic "slaves" at her home in Barking, east London.
Lucy Adeniji brought two children and a 21-year-old woman to the UK from Africa illegally and used them as servants.
She was convicted of 17 different counts at Isleworth Crown Court.
The mother-of-five is the first person to be jailed for trafficking children into the UK for domestic servitude.
In a case that has been likened to modern-day slavery, Adeniji smuggled the three victims into Britain on false passports, and used them as servants at her home in Ray Gardens, Barking.
An illegal immigrant herself, Adeniji, 44 - originally from Nigeria - had told the victims' parents they would have a better life in the UK, but instead viciously beat them if they failed to please her.
Benefits inquiry
The abuse only came to light when one of the victims escaped from Adeniji's home after being beaten.
Adeniji was convicted last month of assault, child cruelty and facilitating illegal entry into the UK of a child.
She also admitted six counts of obtaining false passports for herself and her own children and two counts of facilitating illegal entry.
Adeniji faces a separate investigation into money she claimed in benefits for her own children.
Det Insp Gordon Valentine, of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Paladin - which targets child trafficking - said the case could be the tip of the iceberg.
"The people who are using this form of slavery in their households know it is wrong," he said.
"This case is very important because it shows victims that we can have successful prosecutions and that they can find justice."
The case has echoes of the maltreatment of Victoria Climbié who died at the hands of her guardian, Marie Therese Kouao. She and her boyfriend Carl Manning were found guilty of Victoria's murder in 2003.
but when will all this criminal pastors stoping tarnishing our images within and outside ? every day , you must read about one pastor or the other , shameless peoples
Posted: at 19-03-2011 04:22 PM (13 years ago) | Grande Master
Dan_Fulani at 21-03-2011 07:08 AM (13 years ago) (m)
I wished they had send her to prison for a longer period and also ordered her to compensate her victims. She was not acting like a pastor when she broke the laws and enslaved children. She will have a lot of time to thinkk about her actions.
dan fulani
Posted: at 21-03-2011 07:08 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac
nonsense , what about those who commited and are still commiting various ofences here daily right at your nose , what have you done to those ? now opening your toothless and dirty mouth so wide now to say rubbish about some in a far distance , baboon
Posted: at 21-03-2011 08:49 AM (13 years ago) | Grande Master
Commonsense at 21-03-2011 09:37 PM (13 years ago) (m)
Quote from: ajanni on 21-03-2011 08:49 AM
nonsense , what about those who commited and are still commiting various ofences here daily right at your nose , what have you done to those ? now opening your toothless and dirty mouth so wide now to say rubbish about some in a far distance , baboon
You better close that your pit toilet you call mouth. You deserve to be with the gorila in the wild.
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