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What a fugging planet
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/21/london-slaves-freed-after-30-years-captivity
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Three women have walked to freedom through the front door of a south London house where they were held for 30 years in what police described as the worst case of modern-day slavery ever uncovered in Britain.
Police said on Thursday the youngest woman, a 30-year-old British citizen, had had "no contact with the outside world" and was probably born in captivity, possibly within the house in Lambeth.
All three women a 69-year-old from Malaysia, a 57-year-old from Ireland and the British woman were described as "deeply traumatised", and were being looked after by specialists.
The extraordinary story of how the women were rescued from three decades of fear and enslavement within an "ordinary house in an ordinary street" in south London emerged on Thursday after the Metropolitan police's human trafficking unit arrested an unnamed man and woman, both 67, at the same property in Lambeth, at 7.30am.
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Man to man is so unjust
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)really really weird. It bothers me that I've become leery of humans/strangers, but there are some real freaks running around. I trust my pets far far more. Mankind is really often so totally F'ed up and weird.
malaise
(269,049 posts)We don't even use workmen who haven't worked with our friends. Mankind is totally F'ed up - and weird.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and why haven't they been named and shamed yet?
malaise
(269,049 posts)I find that very interesting
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)maybe there's even worse crimes discovered in their past and prosecutors are gathering info...
Either way, we'll know everything when they are formally charged....