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Woman sold as sex slave for old car,
burned with iron and cigarette
Wednesday November 17, 2010 05:22:10 PM,
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London:
A French couple sold their daughter for a used car. She was
subjected to sexual and physical abuses for three years that
included hiring out for sex to other men, it was reported here
Wednesday.
The buyer of the 23-year-old woman used her as a domestic slave, a
court heard.
It is alleged that the woman was sold for 600 pounds
"part-exchange" for a second-hand car, then subjected to sexual
and physical abuse between 2003 to 2006 at a travellers' camp
outside Paris, the Daily Mail reported.
The victim's parents were among eight men and six women appearing
before judges at the court in Melun town in Ile-de-France region
charged with human trafficking and acts of rape, barbarism and
torture.
The woman, named only as Sabrina, was sold to Franck Franoux, 58,
and his partner Florence Carrasco, 56, in return for the car, then
made to live chained up in a filthy shed.
She was burned with iron and cigarette ends, made to look after
their seven children, beaten with iron bars and sticks and hired
out for sex to other men, the report said.
When Sabrina finally fell critically ill, she was dumped outside a
Paris hospital, with no teeth left and weighing about 40 kg, the
court was told.
"She was in a deplorable physical and psychological state," a
police source told France's Le Post online newspaper.
"It took her a year to recover from her ordeal and she will bear
the physical and mental scars all her life."
Le Post added: "The girl's parents handed their daughter over to
another couple in part exchange for a used car, with her value
being estimated at around 600 pounds.
According to the paper, police said she was treated worse than an
animal, with beatings, sexual abuse and scraps of food being
tossed on the ground for her to eat.
The defendants face between two and 15 years in prison for the
offences. The trial is set to last until Dec 17.
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