Civil Guard Storm Farmhouse Freeing Nigerian Teen Sex Slave

This is the moment police storm a remote Mallorca farmhouse where a predator kept his Nigerian born stepdaughter as a sex slave before being jailed for 34 years.

The raid took place at the rural property in Algaida, a town in the centre of Mallorca after the victim finally revealed the abuse to her mother in March 2024.

Footage released by Spain’s Guardia Civil shows officers using a ladder to climb over a wall before rushing into the property where J.L.L. had kept the girl under his control.

Inside, investigators filmed computer equipment, surveillance devices and rows of discs as they searched the rooms used by the convicted abuser.

Police also recorded officers climbing down through a hatch into a dark underground space identified in reports as the hidden cellar hole where the girl was locked up as punishment.

The 51-year-old Spaniard has now been sentenced by the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands to 34 years in prison for trafficking, sexually abusing a minor, making child abuse material and violating the victim’s privacy.

Judges also ordered him to pay the young woman EUR 300,000 in compensation for the devastating psychological and moral damage caused by his crimes.

The court heard that J.L.L. first met the girl’s family in Nigeria in 2015, when she was just seven years old.

Her mother was a single parent living in extreme poverty with three young daughters when the Spaniard presented himself as a generous benefactor who could offer them a better life in Europe.

But judges found he had already begun planning to turn the child into his sexual and domestic slave.

J.L.L. later married the girl’s mother in what the court found was a sham marriage designed to secure the paperwork needed to bring the child to Spain.

During the years it took to arrange the visas, he travelled regularly to Nigeria and began abusing the girl while grooming her to see the attacks as a twisted act of gratitude towards the person she believed was rescuing her from poverty.

The court heard that he showed the child pornographic material involving minors and asked her to send him sexual images when she was aged between eight and 11.

In November 2019, J.L.L. brought the mother and daughter to Mallorca, but immediately separated the girl from her family by telling her mother to live somewhere else while he took charge of the child.

Once at the finca in Algaida, he forced the girl to sign written “contracts” promising daily sex and domestic work in return for a promise that he would later bring her younger sisters to Spain.

From November 2019 until March 2024, when the victim was aged between 12 and 17, he raped her with what the court described as almost daily frequency.

Judges said the abuse even continued while the girl was asleep or crying.

The court heard that he controlled her phone, WhatsApp, TikTok and Instagram accounts and installed cameras inside and outside the house to monitor and record her.

He also forced her to send him abuse images and kept videos, photographs and messages that later became part of the overwhelming evidence against him.

Investigators also found a diary called ‘The Three Nigerian Shadows’, in which the convicted abuser had written about his sexual encounters with the girl.

The victim finally confided in her mother in March 2024, and they went together to police to report the abuse.

The trial was held behind closed doors, where J.L.L. denied the allegations and claimed he had only wanted to save the girl from poverty.

He also tried to claim the girl had initiated the sexual contact because she was “very sexualised”.

But judges said the victim’s account was coherent, spontaneous and detailed, and was backed by relatives, friends, psychologists, police officers and a large amount of documentary evidence.

The sentence said the abuse had caused profound and lasting damage to the young woman’s psychological and social life.

The court heard that she suffered suicidal thoughts, self-harm, severe anxiety, constant emotional distress, dependence on others and eating disorders after years of abuse.

Judges said the young woman’s understanding of personal and sexual relationships had been gravely distorted by what she had endured.

The ruling is not yet final and can still be appealed.