smuggle children into Europe, has been jailed for 14 years for luring two teenage girls from a foster care in the UK to sell them back into prostitution.
Nigerian-born Odosa Usiobaifo, who is based in the UK, was found guilty of conspiring to traffic for the purposes of sexual exploitation.
At the court hearing in Isleworth crown court, the jury heard how the girl aged 14 and 15 had false passports showing they were adults when stopped by Border Force officers at Heathrow.
They were placed in local authority care but were later reported missing to Sussex police by their foster carers.
Usiobaifo had made contact with them and collected them from a pre-arranged point before they were given false passports and tickets.
One girl was refused entry to Spain and returned to the UK and remains in the care. The other passed through and her fate is unknown.
An officer from the UK Border Agency, said: “This was a horrific case involving young girls plucked from care with the sole aim of prostitution.”
