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    Slave Girls: The Shocking World of Human Bondage
    Slave Girls: The Shocking World of Human Bondage
    Slave Girls: The Shocking World of Human Bondage
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    Slave Girls: The Shocking World of Human Bondage

    By Wensley Clarkson

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    Secret prisoners behind closed doors, they were real-life Cinderellas-- with no hope of rescue. Nowhere to run...nowhere to hide...nowhere to turn...

    Enter today's sordid world of slaves and masters, where innocent young girls are sold to the rich, and subjected to horrifying degradation.

    Beautiful Laxmi was the servant of two Arab princesses who regularly beat her and even yanked out her gold teeth. Bleeding and hysterical, she escaped-- only to be returned to the evil sisters.

    Helen was allowed two to four hours of sleep a night by the married couple who kept her. Rarely did a day pass that she wasn't slapped, kicked, punched, and beaten by this cruel doctor and his wife.

    Marita was sold by her husband to his best friend as a sex slave. He forced her to endure horrific beatings-- often locked in wooden stocks.

    Virtual captives in the mansions of the rich and famous, they risked their lives to tell their stories for the first time, in Wensley Clarkson's Slave Girls.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJun 10, 2014
    ISBN9781466873452
    Slave Girls: The Shocking World of Human Bondage
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    Wensley Clarkson

    Wensley Clarkson has been a writer and investigative journalist all his working life. His career has taken him from local newspapers to many of the world's most prestigious newspapers and magazines. He is author of such True Crime Library titles The Railroad Killer, The Mother's Day Murder, Women Behind Bars and The Good Doctor.

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      Slave Girls - Wensley Clarkson

      Hearts live by being wounded.

      Oscar Wilde

      Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark/And shares the nature of infinity.

      William Wordsworth (1795)

      PROLOGUE

      Think of a wealthy middle-class family and what do you see? A safe, comfortable home with a life of decency and attainable luxury. But in reality, some families have inflicted so much terror on innocent servants that it seems almost unbelievable in this day and age. The women in this book had no freedom, often no income, no control over their own lives, and no value but as an object to be physically and sexually abused. Hidden behind the veil of respectability, they became prisoners. Their jailers were often employers, their children, and other employees. Sometimes these women had been kidnapped off the streets and incarcerated.

      Many were young, innocent girls sold to families for a few dollars. Some had not even reached their teens before being forced to leave their homes. Others were captured by sick and twisted people and forced into a nightmarish existence that in some cases cost them their lives.

      It seems incredible, but many of these appalling acts of violence and depravation were committed just a short distance from some of the most famous landmarks in the world, like London’s Buckingham Palace, home to the Queen of England, the so-called savior to a nation that prides itself on freedom of expression and the right to choose. Others were enslaved in similarly civilized cities across the world. And it must be remembered that these women had no choice. Trapped inside often luxurious homes, they were too terrified to alert anyone to their plight.

      Frequently, what should have been a golden opportunity to escape the repression and poverty of their homelands turned into a life filled with fear and loathing as they became the forgotten victims of apparently law-abiding people, who were proud to be part of a so-called civilized society, yet treated their servants like animals.

      Slave girls remain hidden from the outside world in tiny cupboards or bedrooms, sometimes even bare floors on isolated hallways. They are treated like dirt and looked upon as human sponges expected to soak up abuse at the hands of their respectable masters and mistresses.

      This book is a testimony to the indomitable spirit and great courage of these women, many of whom have spoken out for the first time, risking the full wrath of the people they have served in fear.

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      THE AMERICAN NIGHTMARE

      Slavery is the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised.

      Article 1 (1) of the League of Nations Convention on Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labor and Similar Institutions and Practices (1926)

      NEW YORK CITY, APRIL, 1994

      Her hair was thick, lustrous, and so dark it might have been spun on the same loom as the night. Her shoulders and back were slender. Her legs were just as perfect, except for the occasional bruise dotted along the inside of her thighs.

      But then, petite Na had gotten used to pain since her arrival in the United States just twelve months earlier from Bangkok. During that period she had been forced to have sex with hundreds of men in a brothel/prison run by a gang of Chinese immigrants.

      For Na, the American Dream had turned into a nightmare from which there seemed no escape. Every bone in her body ached. She had become numbed by the brutal sexual encounters and had rapidly concluded there was no goodness in the world, even beyond the four walls of that building in Manhattan where she had been incarcerated for so long.

      Some days, she would suffer humiliating torture at the hands of brutal, uncaring clients who saw her as a sexual toy. On the good days, they would not beat her. It had gotten so bad that requests for straight sex were met with an overwhelming feeling of relief.

      Na’s nightmare began when she was halfheartedly helping out in her parents’ grocery store in the Thai capital of Bangkok, daydreaming about a serious office job and a better life beyond the slums of one of the poorest cities in the world.

      A local businessman walked into the store one day and made her a seemingly irresistible offer: He would arrange her passage to the United States and a job. It wouldn’t cost anything because her future employer would pay her expenses.

      A few days later, Na was greeted at JFK International Airport by two neatly dressed Chinese businessman in dark suits and immediately informed of the Faustian terms of her passage to the Big Apple. To pay off the people who had bought her ticket and arranged her visa, she was expected to work in a brothel and have sex with hundreds of men.

      Na was terrified. The men pointed out that she had no choice. They had her return ticket and her passport. They even assured her that after she had sex with 300 men, her debt would be effectively repaid and she would be free to go.

      Then they informed her of her new life: She would be held captive behind the locked doors of a Chinatown brothel where the inmates were known only by numbers instead of names, bars covered the windows, and buzzer-operated gates controlled the doors. She would not be allowed to leave the building until she had worked off that debt.

      Na began weeping in the Lincoln limousine as it whisked her towards her new, horrendous life. The two Chinese businessmen sat stone-faced and told her, "You have no

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