The 48-year-old Michael
Okene Okeke, an alleged pimp, was arrested by the police, on accusations that
he lured a 25-year-old female to Cape Town from Gauteng under untruthful pretenses
after the two were familiarized by an acquaintance at an event two months ago. Upon arrival, the young female was supposedly locked up
at a house in Brooklyn, near Milnerton, somewhere she was forced to consume
drugs and become a prostitute.
A month later, while
on the streets, the young female succeeded to alert a passing police automobile
of her conditions before she was rescued and taken to a safe place. On Friday,
Okeke made a brief attendance before Magistrate Sylvan Africa at the Cape Town
Magistrate’s Court where prosecutors specified they had no bail profile on the
accused. The Okeke will be back in court on Friday. Although, there is not much
information on the victim, Brooklyn is known for prostitution along the main
road, with countless of women supposed to have been trafficked to the region and
forced to into the sex trade. In March police detained Lebogang Molapo, 33, and
Andy Okafor, 34, after they supposedly recruited and transported a 35-year-old
females from Johannesburg in Milnerton and attempted to force her into
prostitution.
Days later she was attacked
and she was kicked out of the house and she immediately reported the matter to
police. According to the Salvation Army’s anti-human trafficking campaign, most
sexual trafficking also includes some form of coercion such as kidnapping,
threats, intimidation, assault, rape, drugging or other forms of violence.
By: Ellouise Muller
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