According to a research done by Isoke Aikpitanyi a former trafficked victim in Italy, the Nigerian mafia collaborates with the Italian mafia in the trafficking of Nigerian women.
In her book titled '500 storie vere (500 true stories), she claimed that Nigerian girls who rebel against their madams (traffickers) are murdered or disappear without trace, and that there is a continious inflow of trafficked Nigerian girls some of whom are underage children into Italy daily.
These trafficked girls are forced to pay an average of 80,000 euros, and in order to pay this amount the girls are forced to have sex with as many men as they can find everyday. Even when they are sick, during heir menstrual period or pregnant, and regardless of the weather as they stand in the streets during winter to look for clients.
In addition, the girls are forced to have unprotected sex with clients against their will, and when pregnant the traffickers forcefully aborts the pregnancies against the will of these girls. These abortions are performed underground as the girls are not allowed to go to registered hospitals, so they are forced to go through painful abortion procedures that puts their lives at risk.
The book is a compilation of the stories of 500 trafficked victims in Italy, and according to the research, about 10,000 Nigerian female pimps or traffickers currently live in Italy, the largest in Europe compared to other countries.
Additionally, the traffickers force the girls to live underground and this makes it difficult for the trafficked girls to get assistance from social workers, and those that ever escape have been helped by their clients who had pity on them.
To order a copy of this book visit http://www.ediesseonline.it/catalogo/materiali/500-storie-vere
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