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My life of misery as an Amsterdam sex slave

Feb 15 2009 by Laura Caroe, Sunday Sun

Sarah Forsyth

HAUNTED by memories of childhood abuse and years spent as a sex slave, Sarah Forsyth kept the painful memories bottled up.

But today her tragic tale can be told for the first time. Sexually abused from the age of three, Sarah managed to rebuild her life as a nursery nurse and applied for a job in a creche in Amsterdam.

But within minutes of stepping off the plane in Holland the then-19-year-old’s life began to fall apart. Sarah was a victim of sex-trafficking.

Her passport was taken away and she was forced at gunpoint to work as a prostitute in the red-light district while being fed a constant supply of cocaine and cannabis.

After a year working in the sleazy den, Newcastle-born Sarah, now 33, found the strength to fight back and escape.

Now she has written a book about her harrowing experiences from being a young girl in and out of care homes, then forced into prostitution and her subsequent addiction to morphine and methadone.

Sarah, who lives in Gateshead with her civil partner, Tracy, admits in her book, Slave Girl, that she used to have a £500-a-day drug habit.

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