A former model has escaped from a man she claims held her as a ‘sex slave’ in Turkey and Russia for seven years.
Natasha Serebriy had two children by a ‘tyrant’ known only as Vyacheslav R. who she says caused her horrific injuries.
Now 25, her weight fell to just six stone.
She accuses the businessman of ‘raping and beating’ her almost daily.
When she finally fled from him, she was visibly anorexic and suffering from broken ribs, chest bone and fingers, severely damaged organs, head injuries — and a torn rectum.
Natasha Serebriy had two children by a ‘tyrant’ known only as Vyacheslav R. who she says caused her horrific injuries
The Ukrainian beauty also had anaemia due to an acute three month long blood loss that almost killed her.
Natasha says her tormentor – 30 years her senior – first started to beat her one month after they met when she was only 18, seven years ago.
She is believed to have suffered from Stockholm syndrome, harbouring feelings of trust or affection for a man who had ‘kidnapped’ her.
The woman is now being hidden in a refuge for victims of domestic violence in Russia amid fears he is stalking her, according to Moskovsky Komsomolets.
Natasha says her tormentor Vyacheslav R. (pictured) first started to beat her one month after they met when she was only 18, seven years ago
The woman is now being hidden in a refuge for victims of domestic violence in Russia
Vyacheslav is an alleged bigamist who in Turkey – and later Russia – forbade her having a phone, cut her off from any social contact, and ‘beat me in front of my daughters’.
The children are now aged five and three.
With a promising modelling career in front of her, she fell for his ‘care and attention’ but soon realised he was violent.
‘After one month, he began pressurising and assaulting me,’ she said.
‘He kept repeating that it was all my fault, that he simply had to re-educate me to do things the right way,’
She said: ‘At first I loved him and wanted to become better to please him.
Vyacheslav is an alleged bigamist who in Turkey – and later Russia – forbade her having a phone, cut her off from any social contact, and ‘beat me in front of my daughters’
With a promising modelling career in front of her, she fell for his ‘care and attention’ but soon realised he was violent. Her weight dropped to six stone, he said
‘I dreamed of having his baby, thinking that this would fix everything, that he would change, understand that I was also a person, dear to him.’
But this was not the case.
Where she was six months pregnant, he took her to Turkey and hid her away.
‘I was a slave,’ she said.
If she went out, she had to hold his hand.
‘I just had no physical opportunity to leave. He took all my documents,’ she said.
‘He forbade me from speaking to my friends and my mother, explaining that she was bad for me. He cut off all my relatives.
‘I was not allowed talking to my neighbours.
‘He beat me up in presence of his business partners when they came to visit us.
‘He took my phone away and when he went outside, he always locked the door.
‘I was left alone in the apartment for the whole day.
‘I had to clean, wash, cook for him.’
She admitted she had ‘a serious dependency on him’ yet constantly flinched from his violent rages when he physically abused her.
He attacked her soon after giving birth and when she was breastfeeding ‘because I didn’t give him due respect,’ she said
Some 22 months after her first daughter Eva was born, she gave birth to another girl, Lisa
He attacked her soon after giving birth and when she was breastfeeding ‘because I didn’t give him due respect’.
He then forbade her to use contraception despite her claim that he almost daily raped her.
Some 22 months after her first daughter Eva was born, she gave birth to another girl, Lisa.
His son by his earlier marriage saw the abuse and reported it to Turkish police, she said.
She was deported to Ukraine and he was thrown out separately from Turkey.
Natasha went to stay with her family in Kiev, but he found her.
‘He told me I belong to him and, no matter what I do, I will never get away – until I die,’ she said,
‘He grabbed me, threw me into a car with the children and took me to Russia.
‘He put me in a house in the Moscow suburbs for more than two years – from June 2016 to January 2018 – forcibly kept me there. Until I managed to escape …’
For her final three months, she was ‘exhausted and bleeding’.
She begged him to take her to a doctor, gearing she would otherwise die.
Natasha was eventually allowed to go to a hospital but he kept the children as ‘hostages’.
He then forbade her to use contraception despite her claim that he almost daily raped her
She told the hospital staff about her plight and begged them for help.
They fooled him into bring then children to see him, then demanded he take her blood test results to another hospital department.
In his absence, nurses and doctors had arranged a getaway car that took her into hiding, arranged by the women’s refuge.
Natasha still lives in fear that he will find her.
Russian police are now reported to be searching for Vyacheslav after she complained about being forcibly held as a sex slave.
A social worker familiar with the case said: ‘She is lucky to be alive.
‘His is a tyrant who has caused her misery.’