Nigerian Human Trafficking Victims Rebuild Their Lives After Returning Home

Abuja — Nigeria's agency for combating human trafficking is repatriating and re-settling women who have been subjected to forced labor and prostitution after being smuggled into Europe on false promises of working at well-paying jobs.  Thousands of Nigerian women have been trafficked in recent years, though some were lucky enough to be able to return to their country.

For 35-year-old Beatrice, it was an offer she couldn't resist.  A job, the traffickers told her in 2013, on a large Italian farm.

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