Geetha, 32, came to the UK in 2004 with a family friend looking for work, but he confiscated her passport and forced her to work for him unpaid. He also regularly insulted, beat and raped her.
"He forced me... every day... he wanted to sleep with me. He said, 'If you don't sleep with me, I kill you'."
She eventually escaped after nearly four years, but when she was assessed by the authorities, they didn't believe her and said she could have left much sooner.
"I don't know any person. I don't know anywhere to go. So how can I go?
"They say, 'You don't have any witness'. What can I say? How can I give a witness? Why do they not believe?"
Geetha tried to commit suicide and says she now feels enormous anger for her captor.
"I can't marry anyone. I lost my body. This man.......
spoiled my life."
I was reading an article about immigration reforms in UK when I came across this testimonial. It was the last sentence....especially the last three words....that struck a cord with me.
Not entirely sure why.
Although I won't deny life could be better, a bit bitter not where even I wanted to be this point of my life, at times seemingly unfair......
still feel I'm living a priviledge life.
I've benefited from living in a world that's......unfair.
"Spoiled my life" cuts both ways when you really think about it.
As a species,
we're pretty high maintenance .
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