Pakistan Police Rescue French Woman, 5 Children After 12-Year Captivity
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jun 24
Pakistan Police Rescue French Woman, 5 Children After 12-Year Captivity
2 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Jun 24
Summary
A police raid in Bara freed Sylvie Yasmina, 54, and her five children after one son slipped out and reported years of alleged abuse and confinement by their father.
Police arrested the husband, a Pakistani national, after finding the family in a cramped, dilapidated room with bruises; Yasmina said he beat them and cut them off from the outside world.
Yasmina told investigators the family had been effectively imprisoned since moving from Australia to Pakistan in 2014, with the two older children missing school and the three younger ones never enrolled.
The mother and children have been moved to a women's shelter in Peshawar and plan to return to France, according to police.