In sentencing, Judge Richard Bond said the woman showed “a complete disregard for the welfare” of the women. “You saw them not as living, breathing human beings but as commodities to earn you large sums of money,” he said, according to the Daily Mail.

The trafficked women were made to work as prostitutes to repay the debt. Prosecutors claimed that Iyamu, a British national, used the voodoo ceremonies to maintain psychological control over the women. Iyamu became the first British national prosecuted for offences under the Modern Slavery Act for trafficking victims outside the UK. She had worked as a nurse for a short stint in south east London hospitals.