A TEENAGE “sex slave” sobbed as she told a court how she was raped and beaten after being forced to work as a prostitute by Eastern European gangsters. The girl was just 16 when she was tricked into travelling to the UK for a job in a Peterborough pub, jurors were told. Now 18, the Slovakian victim told Southwark Crown Court she was a virgin when an Albanian pimp raped her and sent her to work in a sleazy west London brothel. She was later “bought” by various men and ended up working in Mellows Sauna, in Bedford Road, Luton.
The girl’s 16-month ordeal began when Edward Facuna (54), of St Mary’s Court, Peterborough, a friend of her mother, told her he could get her a good job in Britain, it is said. He and co-defendant Roman Pacan (39), of Parliament Street, Peterborough, drove the teenager through Germany, Holland and France to Dover. The two deny trafficking a person into the UK for purposes of sexual exploitation.
The court heard the Slovakian teenager was taken to Peterborough, in September 2006, where she was passed from Facuna and Pacan to a man known only as “Claude”. Sobbing, she told the court: “He started touching me all over my body.
