Nigerian Teenager Stabbed And Burnt To Death In Russia

Tears flowed uncontrollably when the
Samson family received the news that
their 17-year-old daughter, Forester
Samson was stabbed to death in far
away Moscow, the capital of Russia.
Sunday Sun gathered that she was
murdered by yet-to-be-identified
Russian gangsters. According to a family
source, the perpetrators went further to
lock her body in a room and set it ablaze.
Though, the police took her to the
hospital, it was rather futile.
The source revealed that Forester was
sponsored abroad by one Mercy who is
suspected to be trafficking Nigerian
girls on the promise that she would
assist them with decent jobs in Russia.
The teenager without hesitation, but
with the approval of her mother jumped
at the offer with high hopes.
According to the deceased's elder sister,
Sonia Samson, they got a call from
Mercy, on Tuesday March 4, 2014 that
Forester had died in an inferno. She
added that the family was later told that
Forester was stabbed before being set
ablaze.
Sonia said, "Her madam is the one that
called us on Tuesday and told us she was
locked in a room and set ablaze by some
unknown Russians. She told us that she
was rushed to the hospital, that they
were treating her.
"Later that day, she also told us that she
was initially stabbed before she was
burnt. Not too long after, she told us that
she was dead. The madam said she was
not the only victim in the attack. She
said there were five other Nigerians, that
another one died four or five days after
the attack.
The late Forester, who would have been
celebrating her 18th birthday on March
30 hails from Igbekhue in Orhionmwon
Local Government Area of Edo State.
She completed her secondary
education in 2013.
Siblings and other relatives of the late
Forester's father are worried and pained
by circumstances surrounding how
Forester was lured into traveling to
Russia, which they described as shady.
Recognizing the fact that she did not
travel to Russia for further education,
even as they were not also informed of
such plans, they are calling on
concerned authorities to wade into the
matter.
They are accusing Mercy of human
trafficking and calling on National
Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking
in Persons (NAPTIP) to investigate the
activities of this said Mercy. They also
want the Nigerian Embassy in Russia to
as a matter of urgency unravel the
mystery surrounding the death of their
daughter.

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