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Nigerian Couple Found Guilty Of Forced Labour, Trafficking In US

Olowofela AdebanjiBy Olowofela AdebanjiMay 7, 2024Updated:May 12, 2024No Comments2 Mins Read
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A Nigerian couple, 50-year-old Bolaji Bolarinwa and 67-year-old Isiaka Bolarinwa, have been found guilty of forced labour and trafficking.

The couple, from Burlington County, New Jersey, were found guilty after a two-week trial, the United States Department of Justice said.

The pair were found to have coerced two individuals into domestic labour, including childcare, between December 2015 and October 2016.

While Bolaji was convicted of two counts of forced labour, one count of alien harboring for financial gain, and two counts of document servitude, Isiaka was convicted of two counts of forced labor and one count of alien harboring for financial gain. They were acquitted of a second count of alien harbouring for financial gain.

“Once Victim 1 arrived in the United States in December 2015, Bolaji Bolarinwa confiscated her passport and coerced her through threats of physical harm to her and her daughter, verbal abuse, isolation, and constant surveillance to compel her to work every day, around the clock for nearly a year.

“When Victim 2 arrived in the United States in April 2016, Bolaji Bolarinwa similarly confiscated her passport and coerced her to perform household work and childcare but relied more heavily on physical abuse,” the court heard.

Speaking at the end of the trial on April 24, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke stated, “The defendants deceitfully lured the victims to the United States with promises of benefits but then betrayed them.”

She emphasised that they confiscated the victims’ passports, threatened, degraded, physically abused, and kept them under constant surveillance to exploit them for profit.

U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger added, “These defendants engaged in an egregious bait-and-switch, luring the victims with false promises of a life and an education in the United States, and instead subjected them to grueling hours, physical abuse, and psychological abuse.”

Both defendants face a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for each forced labour count and 10 years for the alien harbouring count.

Bolaji faces an additional maximum penalty of five years in prison for each unlawful document conduct count. They will also have to pay mandatory restitution to the victims and fines up to $250,000 or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense.

Olowofela Adebanji

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