31-year-old Andrea Serrano, from Colorado, who admitted to having sex with a then 13-year-old boy, and then having his child, has been sentenced to three months in prison after she was initially freed shortly after her original arrest in July of 2022 on a $70,000 bond.

The ekweremmadu case is sad.

The daughter has bad kidneys and now

No parental support.

But there are lessons to be learnt

Especially for rich and powerful people who can afford legal services

For any significant engagements particularly outside the country always seek the advice of a lawyer

An honest lawyer would have told ekweremmadu

That when a rich and powerful man engages a poor and vulnerable person in a transaction with potential moral complications

The rich man must leave no loose ends

The ekweremmadu case is sad

But the disparity in wealth and power between them and the donor stacked the odds against them

But the back breaker in that case is this question

How can a power politicians with a large nuclear and extended family, drivers, stewards etc

Not find any donor from amongst his family and friends?

How did he depend on a total poor stranger for a kidney for his ailing daughter?

This is the that ekweremmadu’s lawyers could not deal with.

It’s a pity

If Ekweremmadu had sought legal advice, he could have gone to India

But this isn’t to say that the UK’s system isn’t good. The legal net established to check slavery worked

It’s just that Ekweremmadu did what many other Nigerians would have done in a place where it is a total taboo.

My sympathy for ekweremmadu doesn’t undermine the soundness judgment

There might have been some other unwholesome things around that deal on the boy’s part

But that judgment should prick our consciences about slavery.

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