Sex slaveryBritish model kidnapped to be auctioned off on the web as sex slave

Chloe Ayling, a 20-year old British model was drugged, handcuffed, gagged, and put in a bag in the trunk of a car by kidnappers who then auctioned her off on line as a sex slave. 

Ayling, who was held by the captive for a week, was drugged with ketamine, and then taken by balaclava-clad men to a remote Italian farmhouse where she was chained to a chest of drawers.

The Daily Mail reports that her captors claimed they were members of a group called “Black Death.” They threatened that if her agent failed to pay a $300,000 ransom, they would use a “deep web” auction to sell her sell her to people in the Middle East who were looking for sex slaves.

The captors also told her that once the people who bought became bored of her, she would be fed to the tigers.

The police has arrested a 30-year old Polish national, Lukasz Pawel Herba, who has confessed to the kidnapping. His home in Oldbury, in the West Midlands, was raided.

The kidnapping involved elaborate planning. Her kidnappers contacted her agent had booked her for a photo shoot in Milan on 11 July, but when she arrived at the abandoned building, she was grabbed by the kidnappers.

She was stuffed into a big bag, placed in the trunk of a car, and driven 120 miles to the small hamlet of Borgial near the French border. She was made to lie on the floor and handcuffed to a chest of drawers.

The men took compromising photographs of her and posted them on the dark web, trying to auctioning her off.

After three days, one of the kidnappers told her that they had made a mistake in capturing her because she had a small child – and that the organization’s leaders were upset with the kidnappers because grabbing mothers was against the “rules” of the organization. She was released from her handcuffs for the last three days of her ordeal, and allowed to move around the farmhouse. 

At the same time, the kidnappers redeuced their ransom demand from her agent from $300,000 to $75,000.

On 17 July, Herba took her to the British consulate in Milan, where he was arrested.

Black Death’s dark web site features a section called “Trafficking,” where the organization advertises women for sale. Each photo of a woman is accompanied by her measurements, her surname, and an assurance that she had been checked by a doctor for sexually transmitted diseases.

Ayling told police investigators that Herba had told her that, on average, the organization kidnaps three women a week, and that since 2012, the auctioning off of these women had earned Black Death about $15 million. Most of the kidnapped women were sold to rich individuals in the Middle East.

Herba told Ayling: “When the buyer gets tired of the girl he can give them to others or if she’s not longer of interest she’s ‘tiger meat’.”

Ayling met Herba a few months earlier on a shoot in Paris, which was cancelled as a result of a terror incident, in which a French policeman was shot dead on Champs Élysées in an attack claimed by the Islamic State.