Victorian sentenced to more than four years in prison after leaving wife ‘grief-stricken and traumatised’ in Sudan
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A Victorian man who tricked his wife into travelling to Sudan before taking her children and passport back to Australia has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
After a county court trial, the 52-year-old man in April became the first Victorian convicted of exit trafficking – where someone is coerced, threatened or tricked into leaving Australia against their will.
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