Beatings, rape and non-stop work: UK women enslaved in forced marriages

Survivors say their plight should be viewed as modern slavery and the perpetrators prosecuted

Betrayed by her own family, isolated from the outside world and raped daily by her violent husband, one desperate teenager turned to a confidential helpline.

The 17-year-old from the north of England first met her abusive partner the day before she was forced to marry the middle-aged man in Britain. She was 16 at the time, but her road to forced marriage in the UK began years earlier.

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