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malaise

(268,949 posts)
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 06:21 PM Nov 2013

Shocking- London slaves freed: three women walk out of house after 30 years' captivity

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

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Shocking- London slaves freed: three women walk out of house after 30 years' captivity (Original Post) malaise Nov 2013 OP
Forever, I was a very trusting individual, but anymore, I find many people are RKP5637 Nov 2013 #1
I am always wary malaise Nov 2013 #2
... RKP5637 Nov 2013 #5
What type of person does something like this? Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #3
Why are they covering up the nationality (ies) of the couple arrested? malaise Nov 2013 #6
Now that I think about it Blue_Tires Nov 2013 #7
the perps should get a life sentence Liberal_in_LA Nov 2013 #4

RKP5637

(67,104 posts)
1. Forever, I was a very trusting individual, but anymore, I find many people are
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 06:28 PM
Nov 2013

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

(268,949 posts)
2. I am always wary
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 06:51 PM
Nov 2013

We don't even use workmen who haven't worked with our friends. Mankind is totally F'ed up - and weird.

malaise

(268,949 posts)
6. Why are they covering up the nationality (ies) of the couple arrested?
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 08:21 PM
Nov 2013

I find that very interesting

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
7. Now that I think about it
Thu Nov 21, 2013, 08:42 PM
Nov 2013

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....

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