In Photos: The Secret World Of Modern Slavery

Carla (not her real name), 19, escaped sexual slavery at the hands of criminal gangs in Honduras

Three gang members said we’d have to sell drugs for them. They said: ‘We’re giving you an order.’ They forced us into a car at gunpoint and drove us to a house in a poor neighbourhood. A policeman arrived and we thought we were saved. But he said, ‘It’s good you got some new girls, let me try them first.’ Every morning, men paid to have intercourse with us; every night we’d sell drugs. They gave us no food. Eventually, a client helped me escape. Now I’m applying for refugee status in Mexico.

Photo: Encarni Pindado for the Guardian