Anti-Slavery tells horrific story of sex slaves in London

Anti-Slavery International’s coverage of the High Court’s landmark decision to compensate four Moldovan women who were trafficked into the UK and foced to work as slaves in London’s brothels provides a horrific account of slavery going on in the UK today. We’ve reproduced the content below from Anti Slavery International’s website.

Anti-Slavery International welcomes the landmark decision by the High Court yesterday (19 February 2009) to compensate four Moldovan women trafficked into forced prostitution in the UK with more than £600,000 in damages, and calls for the compensation of trafficked people to become part of mainstream criminal proceedings.

The women, all in their twenties, were tricked into leaving Moldova with the promise of finding work as dancers. Each borrowed £20,000 upfront from the criminal gang for bringing them to Britain.

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