I was bleeding from my private part for three months – Trafficked victim narrates experience

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I worked in Nigeria as a teacher. The pay was hardly enough to support my younger siblings, let alone eat myself. I therefore considered it a breakthrough when I was introduced to a “travel agent” who assured me of a well-paying teaching position in Mali.

I informed my family that I would be working in a school overseas. Everyone was content. In the expectation that my life would finally improve, I took out a loan, sold my phone, and set off.

However, everything changed as soon as we arrived in Mali. They took our phones and passports.

Along with other Nigerian girls, I was confined to a room. I was informed that I had been “bought” and that I now needed to “work” to repay the money that had been used to get me there.

I refused.

I informed them that I had not come to sell my body but to teach. The beatings began at that point. They kept me in a dark room, starved me, and I started bleeding from my privates for no apparent reason. No one came to aid me when I fainted multiple times.

My reluctance, according to the “native doctor” they brought, was upsetting the spirits of the land. I was warned that I would die if I didn’t begin working. They even attempted to use strange rituals to coerce me into becoming spiritual.

I believed I was losing my mind. I wept, prayed, and bled for three months. After a while, a good Malian woman who visited the house saw how I was feeling and called the police in secret. I was saved in this way.

Even though I’m back in Nigeria, the trauma still affects me. I still get nightmares. I occasionally ponder how a teacher may have been the victim of spiritual abuse and human trafficking.

Please don’t fall for “travel job” scams if you’re a young woman with huge aspirations. I nearly died.

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