Trafficked

"Just a few years ago everything changed. I was trafficked. I was deceived by a man who said that he loved me. I was a product and a vehicle to make money. But I am a survivor.”

Sophie Hayes, a young, educated woman, was spending an idyllic weekend in Italy with her boyfriend, who she had known for nearly 5 years. But on the day she planned to return home, he made it clear that she wasn't going anywhere, threatening to kill her family if she didn’t help him pay off his debt from a drug deal gone wrong.

So began six months of working the streets as a prostitute in a country where Sophie didn’t speak the language, nobody knew her whereabouts, and escape seemed impossible.

This year, over 700,000 women will be forced into sex slavery. Nearly 50% of them know their captors.

The first known woman to be trafficked out of the UK, Sophie’s true story exposes the chilling reach of trafficking where we’d least expect it, and reveals the sinister impact of a seemingly innocent relationship. .