Summary
LOANNA came to the UK on a promise of domestic work, a vast improvement on her life in Africa. Orphaned as a young child she had slept rough and been beaten and raped by a number of men. When she was offered a way out of her dire circumstances by a British man, she accepted.
Instead, her life dramatically worsened. When she arrived in the UK with her new 'friend' Stuart, Loanna was taken to his house and beaten. She was told she would be working not as a cleaner, but as a masseuse. She was locked in the house and forced to have sex with up to seven men every day.See the full content of this document
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Caught in Traffic
Her horrific ordeal lasted six months until the house was raided by police - at which point Loanna was referred to the Poppy Project, a service for trafficked women. But she is still scared to go out alone, terrified she will be found and punished by her traffickers.
Loanna's story echoes that of around 6,000 women and girls who have arrived in the UK over the past five years to find that promises of a better life were lies, and who are held captive and used as prostitutes, often sold on time and time again for price tags of ...See the full content of this document
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