Helena says she was 'trapped' and made to take drugs until she became hooked on cocaine as she endured a decade long "living nightmare". A woman who was lured to the UK and forced to become a sex slave during 10 years of hell has spoken out for the first time. Aged 20, Helena was tricked into working in a pop up brothel, warned that if she didn't comply her family would be killed. Helena, who was brought to the country from Romania after being told she could pursue a 'modelling career', says she was given cocaine every day until eventually she became hooked.
Bravely speaking out in the Daily Star on Sunday, Helena said: Helena was living in poverty in Romania when people who knew her family told her she was pretty and could have a modelling career in the UK.
She was flown to Britain, put up in a flat, and made to pose for sexy bikini and underwear photos. Helena was told the images were for a portfolio, but later told there was no work, and the photos were secretly put on a sex site. I was told the rent would be euros a week. I was only 20 and I was scared and naive. I thought they were trying to help me. Helena, now 30, said she was told she had a job as a massage therapist which would help her pay off her loan, with the 'landlord' taking her documents off her until she managed to pay.
Then the first guy came and basically he had sex with me. Helena was eventually saved when an English client with underworld links helped her, and her Romanian gang masters let her go last year. But thousands more women are still enslaved and being forced to work in 'pop-up brothels'. Helena has chosen to tell her story Image: Ronel Thomas Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe See our privacy notice More newsletters.
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