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A New Jersey-based Nigerian woman, Bolaj Bolarinwa, has been sentenced to 45 months in US prison for forced labor and other crimes related to her coercive scheme to compel two victims to perform domestic labor and childcare in her home.

The United State Department of Justice announced this in a statement on Friday, May 9, 2025.

Bolarinwa, 51, of Moorestown, previously was found guilty of two counts of forced labor, one count of alien harboring for financial gain and two counts of document servitude following a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Karen M. Williams in Camden federal court. Judge Williams imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.

According to documents filed in this case and the evidence at trial, from December 2015 to October 2016, Bolarinwa — originally from Nigeria, but living in New Jersey as a U.S.

citizen — recruited two victims to come to the United States and then coerced them to perform domestic labor and childcare services for her children through physical harm, threats of physical harm, isolation, constant surveillance and psychological abuse.

The defendant engaged in this conduct knowing that one of the victims was out of lawful immigration status while working in her home.

Once the first victim arrived in the United States in December 2015, Bolarinwa confiscated her port and coerced her through threats of physical harm to her and her daughter, verbal abuse, isolation and constant surveillance to compel her to work every day, around-the-clock for nearly a year.

Bolarinwa then recruited a second victim to come to the United States on a student visa.

When the second victim arrived in the United States in April 2016, Bolarinwa similarly confiscated her port and coerced her to perform household work and childcare but relied more heavily on physical abuse.

The two victims lived and worked in Bolarinwa’s home until October 2016, when the second victim notified a professor at her college, who reported the information to the FBI.

In addition to the prison term, Judge Williams sentenced Bolarinwa to three years of supervised release, imposed a $35,000 fine, and ordered Bolarinwa to pay $87,518.72 in restitution to the victims of her offenses.

“The defendant exploited her relationship with the victims to lure them to the United States with false promises,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.

“The defendant confiscated the victims’ immigration documents and subjected them to threats, physical force, and mental abuse to coerce them to work long hours for minimal pay.

This prosecution should send a strong message that such forced labor will not be tolerated in our communities. The Justice Department is committed to fully enforcing our federal human trafficking statutes to vindicate the rights of survivors and hold human traffickers able for such shameful exploitation of vulnerable victims.”

“Today’s sentence vindicates the rights of two vulnerable women who the defendant subjected to grueling hours and coercive abuse in her home,” said U.S. Attorney Alina Habba for District of New Jersey. “Forced labor and human trafficking are atrocious crimes that have no place in our society. My office and the entire Department of Justice is committed to standing up for vulnerable human trafficking victims and holding their traffickers able.”

“Human nature is generally good. There are situations though that prove some people display more cruel and inhumane behavior,” said Acting Special Agent in Charge Terence G. Reilly of the FBI Newark Field Office. “Bolarinwa lured women with false promises, held them captive, and forced them clean her home and care for her children. Then took it a sickening step further by physically abusing them. Luckily, one of the victims had the courage to tell someone. We ask anyone who notices an odd situation, something that doesn't look or feel right, to please call us so we can help victims that may be hiding in plain sight.”

U.S. Attorney Alina Habba for the District of New Jersey credited special agents of the FBI, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Terence G. Reilly in Newark, with the investigation leading to today’s sentence.

The case was prosecuted as part of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey’s Human Trafficking Task Force, which was formed in 2025. The Task Force brings together federal and state agencies to collaborate and dedicate resources to combat human trafficking and prosecute human trafficking offenders who endanger the safety of the community.

The Human Trafficking Task Force is composed of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, the Internal Revenue Service, and the New Jersey Office of Attorney General.

The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Bender for the District of New Jersey and Trial Attorney Elizabeth Hutson of the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.

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Bolaji bolarinwa

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Lol

She forgot herself for a moment and assumed she was in Nigeria where connection happens and noone cares. So happy she got the fines and prison

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You carry your child abuse nonsense you guys do in Nigeria go u.s

ExAngel007:



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Once God blessed some people, they feel like God, can do anything they feel like.
MADAM U GO SLEEP FOR JAIL FOR 4 YEARS.

Abroad no easy, even as you dey bring your mother or mother-in-law for child keeping, follow them talk well before dem vex one day report you for forceful labour, no payment or under payment below the minimum wage.
They will always agree in Nigeria, but when they come over their, the story will change after a few months.
I knew of some guys currently under the mercy of their mother-in-law's because the latter were brought for child keeping but now they're demanding for so much more!!

As for Bolarinwa, her own is clear case of wickedness, manipulation and system exploitation.

How can people that apc that produced an obvious catastrophe like tinubu have conscience

You think you're in Nigeria where you treat house help anyhow?

She chose to forget that she was no longer in Nigeria.

When the British ended the slave trade african kings ans elites protested. There are a lot of people facing this in the uk also. But are scared to report

Na wa o

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Bolaji bolarinwa

Ike Ekwerenmadu.

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Things that are VERY VERY NORMAL in Nigeria!

When the second victim arrived in the United States in April 2016, Bolarinwa similarly confiscated her port and coerced her to perform household work and childcare but relied more heavily on physical abuse.

The two victims lived and worked in Bolarinwa’s home until October 2016, when the second victim notified a professor at her college, who reported the information to the FBI.



Not trying to justify the abuse; she deserves whosoever punishment meted to her but at least the second victim still achieved her aim of travelling . . . Bolaji; being mean, was trying to use them offset some domestic bill, but that doesn't work in the US.

She should be given life imprisonment or lethal injection.

We don't need someone with that name destroying the image of Nigeria overseas.

She forgot they have left ikoyi GRA and now in New York City


Hamarttan and Snow get differences

Things happen

E don cast

Lol if care isn't taken if u carry ur Mother in Law go abroad for Omugwo Dem fit change am for u as slavery...



Lol all this Lure to abroad na Cap almost all of dem dey know wetin Dem dey go du for abroad even some into prostitution buh at sometime they start wanting freedom....


A Nigerian wanting to Japa is not different from a Nigerian artist wey Neva blow and ready to sign anything under any record Label jus to blow..

blamingthedevil:
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Let's blame the devil

So much forced labour in Africa and Nigeria. Sorry it won't fly in the US u will go to jail.

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That was stiff! American justice system! Hennnnn!

LagosOrigin:
Bolaji bolarinwa

From Anambra state