An evil couple who kept a woman as a slave – forcing her to give up her newborn baby and subjecting her to beatings – have been jailed today. A court heard that Julia Rafaelova, 51, had persuaded the victim to travel to the UK from Slovakia in October 2013 having fallen pregnant during forced prostitution controlled by her.
The pregnant victim, who cannot be named, was promised a better life but she found her family were not in the UK when she arrived. She stayed in a home in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and slept on a mattress on the kitchen floor.
She was forced to give her new baby up just hours after she was born - and the victim never even got to hold her child. She was made to clean the house, cook meals and even shoplift, picking up a criminal record as a result.
