An ex-child sex slave has opened up about the horror of being sold to a Belgian aristocratic paedophile ring, ran by an unnamed politician.
53-year-old Anneke Lucas was sold off at the age of six back in 1969.
"I was raped many, many, many times," she revealed to Mail Online.
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"Usually it was a full night and weekend and so I gathered I was raped for about six hours a week - more than 1,700 hours before I reached the age of 12.
"I was first taken to the paedophile ring when I was six by a woman who worked as a cleaning lady for my mother. She and her husband took me away for a weekend to babysit me and it was her husband who took me to the paedophile ring.
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"Later on, my mother got involved and then she started to take me herself. My mother was never really a mother. She was a very sick woman and a psychopath."
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Lucas first suffered abuse at a castle, where she was forced into an S&M orgy. She was chained up with an iron dog collar and force-fed human faeces.
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Lucas says the network involved "a lot of alcohol and a lot of drugs" and that children were intimidated into silence.
''I had to do it [the rapes] because there was always the threat of being killed.
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"Children were killed. Boys were more often tortured but girls were killed.
She goes on to explain just how warped her mind became.
"I received more attention in the network. It felt good to be viewed as the most perfectly beautiful, sensual object by powerful men with high standards in taste. This was the only positive in my life, and I clung to it as my only raft to keep from drowning in a sea of shame and self-loathing."
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Five years into the ring, when Lucas turned 11, she was deemed "of no use anymore" and scheduled to be killed.
"One man was forcing five young children to harm me. It was part of their indoctrination.
"The torture lasted for a few hours. A burning cigarette was put out on my forearm. My body is full of scars and every scar reminds me of that moment."
When one of the abusers struck a deal with a politician running the sex ring, Lucas was freed. It was agreed that the abuser would then work for the politician as a thank you for sparing her.
Credit: Facebook/Anneke Lucas
"After that I went back with my mother. I felt numb and it was very difficult to live at home as my mother was unhappy about being unable to punish me anymore. I tried to please her as much as I could.
"I left home at 16 and then lived with an adult who was in his 30s... but soon after I moved in he made clear he wanted me for sex so I was used for sex again."
A spokesman for the Federal Police in Belgium said there were not able to reply to her accusations.
Lucas eventually left Belgium for London, Paris and LA before making home in New York with her 15-year-old daughter.
You can listen to her incredible story here which, of course, you may find distressing.
Anneke with her daughter, who is now 15. Credit: Facebook/Anneke Lucas
The mother now runs Liberation Prison Yoga, an organisation created in 2014 to help other people abused as children.
'It's been a 30-year healing process and the prison yoga organisation is the culmination of my healing journey, sharing healing modalities with those traumatised by incarceration. It is very rewarding and empowering work."
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