A woman has been left traumatized after being lured into the den of ritualists with a fake job offer in Itlay.
The woman, identified as Mercy, a 24-year-old lady from Warri, Delta State, was told by a friend about a woman who was ready to sponsor them to Italy to work as sales attendants in stores and stewards for rich clients.
Mercy, who wented a better life for herself left Warri for Lagos State in October 202/ with her friend, who was also tricked with the job offer.
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However, on getting to Lagos, rather than send them to Italy as they thought, Mercy and her friend, who is now deceased, were drugged in a location in Surulere, Lagos.
They became unconscious for hours and only realized that they were in danger when they found themselves in a forest.
Mercy, alongside other women in the forest, were starved, repeatedly raped, and made to drink from a dirty pond in the forest, a source told SaharaReporters.
Mercy and many of the victims fell sick at various times while in captivity with some of them dying in the process. The body parts of the dead women were dolf to ritualists.
It was also reported that a woman who got pregnant from being raped died, but her baby survived and the kidnappers reportedly sold the baby and the mother’s body to ritualists.
Mercy also narrated that she, her late friend, and two others summoned the courage to escape the place.
One day, after those guarding the forest, became high on drugs and alcohol and dozed off, a handful of the victims escaped.
They walked for three days inside the forest and, unfortunately, Mercy’s friend died during the trip.
The remaining women eventually got to an expressway, where they were given a lift by a reluctant truck driver who was on his way to Lagos.
“Mercy is still in shock over everything she went through inside that forest. She returned to Warri last Thursday and gave birth by Caesarean section on Sunday,” a source told Saharareporters.
“She was impregnated by her captors, who took turns to rape her and other ladies in the bush. Others like her who got pregnant in that forest and delivered there had their babies collected from them for ritual purposes.
“The trauma and pain are still fresh for her because many times she screams from her sleep, afraid that those people in the forest would come back to take her. The situation is affecting her mentally.”
The source added: “She is still in the hospital after giving birth by CS. Her health is of great concern to us because she has high blood pressure at the moment. She needs urgent assistance and intervention in various forms.”
