Noi

Noi (not her real name), the mother of two children in Thailand, was offered a job as a waitress in a Thai restaurant in London.

"...Then I was taken to see a Chinese. They looked me over and afterwards I was told I had been sold for 20,000 pounds [$28,000]. To pay off this debt, I would have to sleep with more than 500 men. When they discovered I was pregnant by my Thai husband, they took me to a doctor who gave me some medicine to take to abort my baby, but I hid it under my tongue and spat it out as I left.

"They took me back to a sauna where I refused to serve the customers. The Chinese boss told me then I would remain a maid and I would have to work for him for the rest of my life, cleaning the bedrooms and changing the condoms. But later when a Turkish customer came in and asked for me and said he would pay 100 pounds [$140], the boss called for me. I refused. He beat me with a stick until I was badly cut and bruised, then he chained me up in a room for three days."

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