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.