A Nigerian man, Jude Ikenna Ijegulu, and his partner, Elizabeth Botes, have been sent to jail in South Africa for running a brothel and trafficking women.
The couple was found guilty of running a brothel where they kept women, with the husband bagging additional sentencing for sexually assaulting the victims.
The 34-year-old Ijegulu, and 29-year-old Botes were sentenced at the Pretoria High Court after they were found guilty of running a brothel in Centurion in Pretoria for 10 months between 2016 and 2017, where they kept two women.
Ijegulu was said to have raped both women and supplied them with drugs. He was sentenced to two life for two counts of rape and additional two years for being in the Rainbow Nation illegally.
This was according to a report by state-owned media, South Africa Broadcasting Corporation (SABC).
SABC reported on Saturday that the court had ordered Ijegulu’s name be added to the National Register of Sexual Offenders.
In his reaction, the National Prosecuting Authority’s Gauteng spokesperson, Lumka Mahanjana, said they welcome the sentences.
“The couple would also instruct the two victims to render sexual services to clients. The Judge found that the two violated the Human Trafficking Act. The man enslaved the two victims and fed them drugs,” he said.
