‘She didn’t want me to hug her’: carer of enslaved woman describes her recovery

Foster carer dismayed at time it took to help woman, who is having therapy, attending college and growing her hair When she finally arrived in a safe place after suffering a quarter of a century of mental and physical torment, she was frail and timid. She could not bear to be hugged, and craved hot showers, getting up at 3am to try to get clean. The foster carer who took in the woman who had been held and forced to work in “Dickensian conditions” in a house in an English market town said the ...

By Steven Morris