Please refresh the page and retry. But after putting down her suitcase, she was presented with a bill for every gift, restaurant dinner and holiday bought during their courtship and told to settle the debt through prostitution. Accession to the EU in was supposed to bring Romanians passport-free travel, generous pay packets and stronger working rights. Instead, many have ended up as sex slaves in the sordid brothels of London, Berlin and Rome, where those who try to escape risk death or torture. Over the years, trafficking gangs have launched increasingly brazen raids on the shelter to take back their captives, scaling the fences, ramming the electronic gates with black SUVs and using lasers to communicate with the survivors inside. Iana founded Reaching out Romania in on her return from exile, having fled the country at the height of the Romanian revolution.