- She was brought up as a slave
- long hours
- scraps of leftover food like a dog
- fine scars down one side of her face and right leg.
- At the age of 15
- she was sold to a trafficker
- who brought her to the UK.
- In London
- she was locked in a house
- and repeatedly raped.
- She escaped.
- She later gave birth to a daughter.
- She wanted to study English
- get a job
- walk away from life
- on benefits.
- She struggled to buy shoes for her children.
- Then the Department informed her
- it was axing her support
- because she had failed to show them a document
- she had never been asked
- to produce.
- She called the Department helpline.
- Waited to speak to someone.
- A recorded message informed her
- there would be
- a charge
- for the call.
[The Guardian, 06/01/2016, The DWP – a bureaucracy of outstanding brutality]