Inside horrific 'human egg farm' where enslaved women are force-fed hormones

Three women were trafficked from Thailand to a workplace successful Georgia, Eastern Europe, wherever they were fixed hormones and forced to person eggs extracted, arsenic authorities analyse the horrifying claims

The plight of women being enslaved connected a sick quality ovum workplace has travel to airy aft 3 managed to escape.

Female prisoners were treated similar animals and fed hormones by a trafficking ringing successful the state of Georgia, with their ovum cells sold connected the achromatic market. The twisted quality emerged aft 3 Thai women enslaved connected the workplace implicit six months were freed connected Thursday past week.

They claimed they became entrapped connected the workplace aft responding to an advert for a surrogacy occupation connected Facebook. The women said they assumed this would mean acting arsenic surrogates for women successful the Eastern European country, and were promised wages of betwixt 11,500 and 17,000 Euros (£9,600 to £14,000).

All 3 accepted the offers, travelling from Thailand to Georgia on with respective others successful August past year, a property league heard. Arriving successful the country, the women were horrified to beryllium housed on with astir 100 others.

They claimed that connected the dystopian farm, criminals force-administered them with hormones to stimulate their ovaries, earlier anaesthetising them erstwhile a period and removing their ovum cells. It's thought the cells were sold to radical wanting children connected the achromatic market.

None of the 3 women enslaved were paid, and said they had to wage 2,000 Euros (£1,665) for their freedom. They managed to flight aft 1 erstwhile escapee alerted a foundation backmost successful Thailand, who helped them wage for their freedom.

In the league connected Friday, 1 of the women spoke of her ordeal, arsenic some Thai and Georgia authorities person confirmed they were investigating the horrifying claims. She told however she had responded to an advert connected societal media looking for consenting surrogates, with the connection of being paid 25,000 Thai baht (£600) a month.

“They took america to a location wherever determination were 60 to 70 Thai women. The women determination told america determination was nary (surrogacy) contracts oregon parents,” Bangkok Post reports her arsenic saying. After this, she said women “would beryllium injected to get treatment, anaesthetised and their eggs would beryllium extracted with a machine”.

The women feigned illnesses to debar having to springiness eggs each month. They besides claimed their captors seized their passports, and that they would hazard apprehension successful Thailand should they instrumentality home.

“After we got this accusation and it was not the aforesaid arsenic the advertisement, we got scared. We tried to interaction radical backmost home.” Georgia's interior ministry has confirmed 3 Thai women were repatriated to their location state and that 4 overseas nationals were being questioned.

Pavena Hongsakul Foundation for Children and Women said it estimated that astir 100 Thai women were being kept connected the farm.