victim of sex trafficking to be paid substantial damages

The woman, who cannot be named because she and her family are still at
risk of retribution by her traffickers, was kidnapped at the age of 14
and then continually trafficked and re-trafficked for forced
prostitution in Italy, Turkey, Hungary, Romania, Israel and Britain
until she was 21.

Her solicitor said she was repeatedly beaten, raped and threatened with
death, and was treated as a slave. She was arrested by police and
immigration officers in a brothel in London in 2003, but instead of
rescuing her they charged her with possessing false documents, which had
been provided by her traffickers.

She was imprisoned for three months before being sent back to Moldova
through a fast-track immigration process. Her trafficker was neither
investigated nor arrested but was allowed to visit her in Holloway
prison and Oakington detention centre, where he posed as her boyfriend,
in order to intimidate her.

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