The girl, known as "Y", was trafficked into England when she was five and remained a hidden domestic slave for 10 years.
During that time she was denied education, was not registered with a GP and had limited access to the outside world.
She was also sold on to another family when the people she thought were her parents left England.
She still doesn’t know who her birth family is and only knows her date of birth because she saw it written down in the house where she grew up in England.
After eventually fleeing, the London Borough of Hillingdon accepted Y was a child, placed her in foster care and enrolled her in school.
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