Dlamini lives with family in USA
SITEKI – Thembi Dlamini, the Swazi woman trafficked to the USA by an American pastor in 2005, is permanently residing in the USA.
Dlamini was lured to the USA by a female pastor who promised her a two-week catering job which never materialised. Following the conviction of the pastor and her husband in April last year, Dlamini now resides permanently with her family in the USA.
AJC.COM reported last Friday that Dlamini has been united with her family which she left behind in 2005. The publication reported that Dlamini’s lawyer Audra Dial, when filing the lawsuit against the pastor and her husband, told the court that his client now resides in the USA.
“Dlamini lives in United States. She reunited with the fiancé from, whom she was separated when those two weeks turned into two years, and they married. Now Dlamini is just trying to move on with her life,” the publication reported that Dial told the court.
However, the name of Dlamini’s husband and family members were not stated in the report.
The area or town in which Dlamini was residing while in Swaziland was also not stated in the report.
Meanwhile, the publication reported that this was not the first human trafficking case tried in Georgia this year.
“Last month, a Nigerian citizen in Atlanta was convicted for trafficking women from Nigeria to work as nannies. She was convicted by a federal jury on charges of two counts of forced labour, two counts of trafficking for forced labour, one count of document servitude, one count of alien harbouring and two counts of making false statements in an application to become a US citizen,” the publication reported.
pastor operates another Church in Swaziland
According to AJC.COM Pastor Juna Babb and her husband Michael Babb operate a church in the country called the Christ Embassy Church. The publication reported that the church has a branch in Swaziland but did not state in which town.
“According to their website, the Babb’s operate Christ Embassy, Atlanta Ministries and alleged to minister to churches throughout America in New Jersey, Texas and Boston as well as overseas in Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland,” the publication said.