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employing, training, or abducting someone
into becoming a sex worker or mounting
pressure on her to become and keep on
being a sex worker; (…)”;
That based on the analysis of this provision,
pimping, to be characterized as an offence requires
the occurrence of one of the above actions and a
premeditation inspired by the conscious
participation in someone else’s prostitution;
Whereas the examination of the case in
court and documents thereof showed that
the Accused, O.I spent CFA F 500,000 (five
hundred thousand) to get each of her fellow
citizens – O.B, D.S, S.P and K. O to become
sex workers in Burkina Faso; that she
sheltered them and provided
them
with
the
material
thereof particularly dresses,
condoms and gels; that she also gave them
a place where to practice prostitution; that by
so doing the material evidence of aiding and
abetting someone else’s prostitution is established;
Whereas the Accused acknowledged she
asked to be repaid the money she spent as transport
allowance from her fellow citizens’ income; that to
this end she collected all what they had earned; that
she consequently enjoyed the profits of
someone else’s prostitution as described in the
above article;
Whereas an examination of the case at the
hearing also indicated that the Accused employed
O. B, D.S, S.P and K. O, through her friend,
Opa in Nigeria, who acted as middleman; that
prostitution material was provided by her; that
each night she sent them to clients with
instructions; that to force them into prostitution,
she collected their identification documents,
their personal belongings in order to intimidate
them, and locked them up in the house each time
she was going out to prevent them from escaping;
that the employment and constraint into
prostitution is sufficiently characterized;
Whereas, moreover, that the Accused had
full knowledge of the fact that her action was
punishable by law, given that she devised a scheme
with her friend Opa in Nigeria, to lie to the girls
they were going to sell in shops for them to come
to Burkina Faso solely for prostitution; that in
addition she adamantly went farther with the
offence by intimidating and locking them up each
time she went out to prevent them from escaping;