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Survivor Recounts 1990s Balkan Kidnapping, Virginity Sale Plot and Escape

New interviews spotlight her testimony of trafficking threats, a gunpoint escape, recapture, then asylum in Britain.

Overview

  • According to her account, traffickers told her they had sold her to the highest bidder and would force prostitution before selling her organs.
  • She says her ordeal began at 17 after fleeing violence near Veliki Trnovac, when a translator alerted a gang following an initial rescue by two US soldiers.
  • She recounts seizing a gun and keys to flee, then being found by a UN police officer after a shootout with her captor.
  • Lyon says she was later recaptured for six months in a so‑called dungeon until her father bribed guards, enabling her to hide in a truck, reach the UK, claim asylum, and gain citizenship in 2005.
  • The latest reports draw from her interviews and memoir, Unbroken: Surviving Human Trafficking, and note she now works in the UK as a motivational speaker and coach.