Marv
November 17th, 2010, 05:53 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1330253/Daughter-sold-French-couple-used-sex-slave-travellers.html
A couple 'traded in' their daughter for a used car to another family who used her as a domestic slave for three years, a court in France heard today.
The 23-year-old woman was sold for £600 'part-exchange' for a second-hand hatchback, then subjected to sexual and physical abuse between 2003 to 2006 at a travellers' camp outside Paris, it is alleged.
The parents are among eight men and six women appearing before judges in Melun charged with human trafficking and acts of rape, barbarism and torture.
The daughter, named only as Sabrina, was sold to Franck Franoux, 58, and his partner Florence Carrasco, 56, in return for the car, then made to live chained up in a squalid shed.
She was burned with an iron and cigarette ends, made to look after their seven children, beaten with iron bars and sticks and hired out for sex to other men.
When she finally fell critically ill, she was dumped outside a Paris hospital, with no teeth left and weighing less than six stone, the court was told.
A police source told France's Le Post online newspaper: 'She was in a deplorable physical and psychological state.
'She needed reconstructive operations on her nose and ears, which had been mutilated.
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Le Post added: 'The girl's parents handed their daughter over to another couple in part exchange for a used car, with her value being estimated at around £600.
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The defendants face between two and 15 years in prison for the offences. The trial is set to last until December 17
A couple 'traded in' their daughter for a used car to another family who used her as a domestic slave for three years, a court in France heard today.
The 23-year-old woman was sold for £600 'part-exchange' for a second-hand hatchback, then subjected to sexual and physical abuse between 2003 to 2006 at a travellers' camp outside Paris, it is alleged.
The parents are among eight men and six women appearing before judges in Melun charged with human trafficking and acts of rape, barbarism and torture.
The daughter, named only as Sabrina, was sold to Franck Franoux, 58, and his partner Florence Carrasco, 56, in return for the car, then made to live chained up in a squalid shed.
She was burned with an iron and cigarette ends, made to look after their seven children, beaten with iron bars and sticks and hired out for sex to other men.
When she finally fell critically ill, she was dumped outside a Paris hospital, with no teeth left and weighing less than six stone, the court was told.
A police source told France's Le Post online newspaper: 'She was in a deplorable physical and psychological state.
'She needed reconstructive operations on her nose and ears, which had been mutilated.
[...]
Le Post added: 'The girl's parents handed their daughter over to another couple in part exchange for a used car, with her value being estimated at around £600.
[...]
The defendants face between two and 15 years in prison for the offences. The trial is set to last until December 17