In one of the worst possible cases of black-on-black crime imaginable, a suburban Atlanta woman has been convicted for enslaving two young women from Nigeria.

It reportedly took a federal jury just over an hour on June 10 to find Bidemi Bello, 41, guilty of luring women into bondage after promising them attractive employment as nannies and the opportunity to be educated in the U.S.

Bello was charged with a number of offenses, including human trafficking, harboring aliens, making false statements on citizenship applications, forced labor and seizing her victims’ passports to force them into servitude. She is scheduled to be sentenced to prison on August 24 by U.S. District Judge Bill Duffey.

The combined charges she was convicted of carry a maximum of 35 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. Additionally, Bello will lose her U.S. citizenship and be deported back to Nigeria after serving her sentence.

For nearly a decade, prosecutors said, Bello waged a campaign to entice and then enslave Nigerian women to clean and provide child care at her homes in the upscale enclaves of Suwanee and Sugar Hill north of Atlanta. The first victim was recruited in 2001 and escaped three years later. Bello’s second victim was lured away from Nigeria and escaped her grasp in 2006.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Susan Coppedge praised the women for the bravery they exhibited while testifying against Bello. Coppedge also hinted that similar prosecutions may be in the offing, saying: “This is shocking behavior going on in a normal-looking subdivision…I think there are other instances in Georgia and certainly the metropolitan area.”

In court testimony, Bello was a portrayed as a merciless task-mistress with no qualms about submitting her victims to inhumane conditions. The atrocities included: frequent beating and verbal abuse; required bathing from buckets of water instead of a shower; being fed spoiled food and forced to eat vomit if they became ill; and strenuous labor, such as hand-trimming Bello’s lawn.

Brock Nicholson, special agent in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued a statement about Bello’s conviction that read, in part: “Few crimes are more shocking than the trafficking of human beings in this country.

“No one should have to live in a world of isolation and forced servitude.

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/atlanta-woman-convicted-enslaving-fellow-nigerians

A Yoruba Ogboni Christian woman of course!

*Absolutely nothing romantic about this topic*

Just read and shut the hell up

@OP this one of the numerous reasons u don't get punny. So unromantic

D-sense:

Just read and shut the hell up

@POST

I suspected Reality101 aka Innocent to have long been enslaved

I knew it -

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@POST

I suspected Reality101 aka Innocent to have long been enslaved

I knew it -

all for good homie

Only a spiritual re-tard would put this kind of topic in a 'Romance' section of NL.
Especially as one who should know better. . . with almost 20,000 posts on NL.
Spiritual dunce!

Tell em bro tell em

Blazay:

Only a spirtiual re-tard would put this kind of topic in a 'Romance' section of NL.
Especially as one who should know better. . . with almost 20,000 posts on NL.
Spiritual dunce!

Back to your generation

I only said read the damn and finger you anus

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@POST

I suspected Reality101 aka Innocent to have long been enslaved

I knew it -

Very right

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See how countries with fcking sanity and laws behave.

They caught her, jailed her and are deporting her moronic arse the minute she leaves jail.

In another case, they asked the evil arsewipe to pay her victim $110K for the slavery.

If it was in Nigeria, some ediots calling themselve leaders will be saying "lets settle this amicably", "forgive and forget" instead of bring swift justice. And when people like me heap insults on the reetards called leaders ruining lives, some of their moronic citizens will say "It is not in our culture to insult elders", "they are old enough to be your father", "have respect for their position".

Fcking reetards! Awon ode oshi!