A woman accused of smuggling West African girls to New Jersey and forcing them to work at hair-braiding salons made her victims undergo a voodoo ritual to frighten them into believing they would go insane if they escaped, a witness testified yesterday during a federal trial in Newark.
Before leaving for America, the girls were given kola nuts to eat by a man in Togo who told them they were taking a vow of loyalty to the woman, Akouavi Kpade Afolabi, said the witness, Vida Anagblah.
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This story has me thinking a LOT about when we got stranded in Ghana, cola nuts and all; the joke was definitely on us. Good thing I can't even give Sydney a straight ponytail, or I might be a hair-braiding slave right now.
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