Spain Links Voodoo to Forced-Prostitution Case

Source: "International Herald Tribune" (NYT in drag)

MADRID — The Spanish police say they have broken up a human trafficking ring that forced Nigerian women into prostitution by threatening them with voodoo curses...

The traffickers lured their victims with promises of a better life in Europe and took them to a voodoo priest before departure, the police said in a statement. The traffickers then smuggled them to Spain, where they told the victims they had to become prostitutes to repay a hefty debt for their journey or face the wrath of voodoo spirits...

Women were taken to a voodoo shrine and made to swear before a priest that they would never reveal the identities of the traffickers, he said. The priests took pieces of fingernails or hair from the women as part of the ritual...

“They fear death, illness, any misfortune the priest tells them,” he added. “If the priest tells them they will get smallpox, then they believe they will catch smallpox.” ...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/world/europe/23spain.html?ref=europe

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Such is the power of Religion.

Such are the origins of all religions.

And it is not to help the person giving the curse, it never helps anyone, it is bad, it is to create some hardship or suffering to hurt people.

Being kind and living in the ideas of blessing people is the only way, curses are dark side, as shown in the example of the story in the OP.

Also an oath made in duress is not a free will oath and any logical conclusion would be it has no effect. Personally I avoid oaths also.


And thank God the Spanish were able to help those women and children.

Victimless crime my ass.

Nigeria is getting quite a reputation for itself

I don't care for Nigerians, I have very low opinion of them. East vs. West Africa bitch-fight is so annoying (I am North-Eastern). :eyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance_fee_fraud

Like I'm Princess Whatever, and I'm in hiding with a bank account of a gazillion dollars. Give me a thousand now so I can escape, and I'll split my huge bank account with you.

Damn, I am so lucky :D

The power of religion is crazy, I love my God but I don't trust those that say they speak for him.

Voodoo=pure evil (It killed several members of my family)

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voodoo is a similar belief system brought from west Africa to Haiti.

As the article puts it, the Yoruba people call it juju.

hundreds of thousands of little girls from Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe are taken thousands of miles from home with the promise of a better life only to get coerced into prostitution...the 'voodoo' angle of the story aside, there are millions of authentic, real-world ways to intimidate these girls to stay in the profession...

about human trafficking. But, upon re-reading, I perceive it to be a story about human suffering.

Funny how we can derive different points out of the same story, eh?