British Model Who Was Nearly Sold Into Sex Slavery Speaks Out

08/31/2017 03:55 pm EDT

A British model is speaking out about a horrifying experience in which she was drugged, kidnapped and was going to be sold as a sex slave in an online auction.

20-year-old Chloe Ayling describes being drugged with ketamine before four men wearing balaclavas abducted her.

Ayling told the Italian police that her agent booked her a photo shoot in Milan on July 11. When the model showed up at the venue, she was attacked.

"A person wearing black gloves came from behind and put one hand on my neck and one on my mouth to stop me from screaming," she said in her statement, according to The Telegraph.

"A second person wearing a black balaclava gave me an injection in my right forearm. I think I lost consciousness. When I woke up I was wearing a pink bodysuit and the socks I am wearing now," she added.

Ayling explained that her captors, who claimed to be part of an online organization called "Black Death," said she would likely be trafficked to the Middle East. They also said that once the man that bought her grew bored of her, she would likely be passed to someone else or fed to the tigers.

After waking up from the drug injection, Ayling found herself gagged and bound.

"I realized I was in the boot of a car with my wrists and ankles handcuffed, adhesive tape on my mouth. I was inside a bag and was only able to breathe through a small hole," she said.

She was driven 120 miles to a farmhouse near the French border where she was forced to lie on the floor next to a chest of drawers. She was handcuffed with all four limbs to the legs of the furniture, leaving her "totally immobilized."

"They watched me, they stopped me from fleeing and they threatened to kill me if I did," she said.

The captors then took compromising photographs of her while she was unconscious. The images were posted on the dark web with the intent of auctioning her as a sex slave.

One of the captors then confessed to her that they made a mistake in kidnapping her as she is the mother of a young child. He told her that it was against the "rules" of his organization.

Her restraints were removed and she was allowed to move about the farmhouse.

The kidnappers then demanded around $350k from her agent in ransom for her release. The agent was able to negotiate down to about $65k for her.

Ayling was taken to the British Consulate in Milan on July 17. One of her captors, Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, was arrested by the police and confessed to the crime.

Since her release, Ayling has been helping the Italian police. She took them to the scene of the kidnapping and the farmhouse.

Ayling says that Herba told her three women a week were sold at auction. Over the past five years, the model says that he told her he had earned $15 million from sales.

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