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Voodoo culture binds women to lives as prostitutes

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Young West African women are holding themselves in sexual slavery as prostitues fearing that should they leave a curse will strike their families.

"I have no doubt in its power," said the petite 24-year-old, who goes by the alias of Maria and described being forced into seven-night-a-week duty at a flophouse brothel on an Athens back street. "Even if I had a doubt, how could I risk the life of my mother and father?"

Breaking hold of a voodoo curse