Italian priests exorcise Nigerian migrant girls forced into prostitution compelled by voodoo spell

The Nigerian migrants believed they were bound to their pimps.

Italian authorities have given the Catholic priests permission to "exorcise," or do counter-magic to Nigerian migrant girls who have been "under a voodoo spell to work as prostitutes." There are around 25,000 women from Nigeria who have been brought to Italy by traffickers.

MUNTINLUPA, PHILIPPINES (Catholic Online) - According to the young girls, there were witch doctors in Nigeria who bound them to their benefactors through some kind of ritual. Before they traveled to Italy, they were given hair and some nail clippings, and even an underwear soaked in menstrual blood, which were all considered their lucky charms.

The girls were forced to work as prostitutes in Europe. They waited for customers on the street for 10 to 12 hours every single day. The girls were afraid that if they refused to engage in such they would be punished hard by their pimps. One of them even who refused this was forced to drink hydrochloric acid, according to the Daily Mail.

The witch doctors in Nigeria had the girls go through the ritual binding and made them believe the spell was for luck. After that, they were sent to Italy in hopes of working as hairdressers, only to find that they would be forced to work as prostitutes and pay their pimps money or they would be punished terribly.

Some of the Nigerian girls complained of feeling as though they had ants inside their bodies, or like a goose's heart was inside their throats, after the spell.

"You are tied to them. You are tied to this oath. You are obliged to respect it. And there are those who, I don't know how to explain it, those who command you because this oath exists. They must command you, control you, and you are obliged to respect it," explained one of the girls, remaining anonymous to the Daily Mail.

The Italian Aid workers, however, realized it was pointless to tell the Nigerian girls the "supposed magic" used on them did not have any power over them.

Save the Children, an international nongovernmental organization that promotes children's rights and helps support children in developing countries, are now working with the migrant girls to help them leave behind their lives as prostitutes, and have a fresh new start by getting into school, according to the Daily Mail.

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