Torture and Deception: The UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry – IOTW Report

Torture and Deception: The UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry

ICIJ: On a pleasure boat cruising Gulf waters near Dubai’s glittering skyline, a Nigerian woman dressed in a white dress and gold jewelry nodded and swayed as a gathering sang “Happy Birthday” to her.

Videos of Christy Gold’s 45th birthday party were posted in May 2022 on an Instagram account that showcases her glamorous lifestyle, months after Gold fled Nigeria, where she was facing sex trafficking charges.

Gold — whose name appears in court records as Christiana Jacob Uadiale — was a ringleader in a criminal network that lured African women to Dubai and forced them into prostitution in brothels, backstreets, bars, hotels and dance clubs, according to six Nigerian government anti-trafficking officials, a British human rights activist who has tracked her operation and five women who say they were trafficked and exploited by her. MORE

10 Comments on Torture and Deception: The UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry

  1. Beachmom….that was my reaction too. I thought she’d look like Imam, David Boise’s wife. All that tacky gold she’s wearing looks like she bought it at my defunct local mall.

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