The family of a prominent Indigenous community leader detained in Japan claims she was groomed by a Nigerian love scammer for two years before she was arrested for suspected drug trafficking.
the pair had messaged back and forth for months, talking about a potential trip to Brazil to meet Nelson’s daughters and making plans to get married in Nigeria donning traditional African dress.
One of the hardest things for me when I found out that she was detained was imagining how she must have felt when she realised that this person didn’t love her.“One of the hardest things for me when I found out that she was detained was imagining how she must have felt when she realised that this person didn’t love her,” Nelson’s daughter Kristal Hilaire said. “How she must have felt when her heart broke.”without charge while police investigate the allegations.
Her daughter, Ashlee Charles, said Nelson was a doting mother and grandmother, who regularly took in other children going through a tough time. She said her mother “wanted to be loved” and had been encouraged to give online dating a go after two of her daughters met their husbands online. Nelson was also managing director of WA-based Pioneers Aboriginal Corporation, which in May 2019 received $1.65 million to expand a basketball program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children over three years, but did not secure follow-up funding.
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