{"id":234878,"date":"2026-05-30T16:42:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-sentences-nigerian-national-to-10-years-over-human-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:42:23","slug":"liberia-court-sentences-nigerian-national-to-10-years-over-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-court-sentences-nigerian-national-to-10-years-over-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Court Sentences Nigerian National to 10 Years Over Human Trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Government of Liberia, through the National Anti-Human Trafficking Taskforce, has secured a major conviction in a human trafficking case involving three Nigerian female minors trafficked to Liberia earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The case, titled Republic of Liberia vs. Esther Asuaquo, was heard during the May A.D. 2026 Term of Court at the 7th Judicial Circuit Court in Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to court records, Ms. Esther Asuaquo, a Nigerian national, was accused of trafficking three&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605290365.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government of Liberia, through the National Anti-Human Trafficking Taskforce, has secured a major conviction in a human trafficking case involving three Nigerian female minors trafficked to Liberia earlier this year. The case, titled Republic of Liberia vs. Esther Asuaquo, was heard during the May A.D. 2026 Term of Court at the 7th Judicial Circuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":234879,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,6185,3575,4712,1107,6687,257,482,9735,254,6615,5114],"class_list":["post-234878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-court","tag-human","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-national","tag-news","tag-nigerian","tag-sentences","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trafficking","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}