Legal Opinion
Lorraine Fiadjoe v. Attorney General of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 17, 2005No. 03-2917, 04-1554PublishedCited by 94 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DEBEVOISE, Senior District Judge.
Petitioner, Lorraine Fiadjoe, petitions for review of orders of the Board of Immi*137gration Appeals (“BIA”) denying her application for asylum, withholding of removal and relief under the Convention Against Torture and denying her motion for reconsideration. With the exception of an eleven year interval, from 1978, when Ms. Fiadjoe was seven years of age, until her flight from her native Ghana to the United States in March 2000, Ms. Fiadjoe was held as a slave of her father, a priest of the Trokosi sect, who, in accordance with the tenets of the sect, forced his…
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