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My life of misery as an Amsterdam sex slave

Feb 15 2009 by Laura Caroe, Sunday Sun

She said: “I was an ordinary British girl. I was kidnapped and sold into sex slavery. I was abused as a child and then tricked into the sex trade as an adult.

“I have been beaten, raped and forced — at gunpoint — to have sex with hundreds of men.

“I have been made to watch the rape and murder of my friends and I have endured a £500-a-day drug addiction. But I am lucky . . . I survived.”

Investigative journalist Roger Cook, who travelled around the world exposing crooks, took an interest in Sarah’s story when it came out in court in 1997, and it was covered on ITV’s The Cook Report.

Sarah, who volunteers at a centre for deprived and disadvantaged children, said she often thought of the girls who didn’t survive in Amsterdam.

In her book she wrote: “Every day I sit here and face what I was and try to accept what I have become, but however difficult my life may be it is nothing to the hell they are still enduring today.

“This is not a book of misery or of grief, it is a book of hope.

“My life was saved. And for those girls whose lives weren’t, I can only pray for them and let them know that I’m thinking about them and still surviving.”

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