A former model has escaped from a ‘tyrant’ who held her as a “sex slave” in Turkey and Russia for seven years.
Natasha Serebriy, 25, had two children by a businessman who she claimed caused her horrific injuries and isolated her from all of her family while controlling her.
Natasha accuses the man of “raping and beating” her almost daily, and her weight fell to just 84 pounds during the terrifying experience.
The former model admitted that she had “a serious dependency on him”, yet constantly flinched from the man’s violent rages when he physically abused her.
When Natasha finally escaped, she was anorexic and suffering from broken ribs, chest bone and fingers, severely damaged organs, head injuries — and a torn rectum.
Natasha also had anemia due to an acute three-month-long blood loss that almost killed her.
She says that her tormentor — who is 30 years older than her— first started to hit her one month after they met when she was only 18.
Natasha is believed to have suffered from Stockholm syndrome, harboring feelings of trust or affection for a man who had held her captive.
She is now reportedly being hidden in a refuge for victims of domestic violence in Russia amid fears that her tormentor is stalking her.
The businessman is an alleged bigamist who in Turkey and later Russia forbade her from having a phone, cut her off from any social contact, and beat Natasha in front of her daughters.
The children are now aged five and three.
Natasha had a promising modeling career in front of her, but she fell for his “care and attention” but soon realized he was violent, she said.
“After one month, he began pressurizing and assaulting me,” Natasha said. “He kept repeating that it was all my fault, that he simply had to re-educate me to do things the right way.”
“At first I loved him and wanted to become better to please him,” she added. “I dreamed of having his baby, thinking that this would fix everything, that he would change, understand that I was also a person, dear to him.”
Unfortunately, this was not the case.
When Natasha was six months pregnant, her tormentor took her to Turkey and hid her away. If she went out, she had to hold his hand.
“I was a slave,” Natasha said. “I just had no physical opportunity to leave. He took all my documents.”
“He forbade me from speaking to my friends and my mother, explaining that she was bad for me. He cut off all my relatives,” she said. “I was not allowed to talk to my neighbors.”
“He beat me up in presence of his business partners when they came to visit us,” she continued. “He took my phone away and when he went outside, he always locked the door.”
“I was left alone in the apartment for the whole day. I had to clean, wash, cook for him.”
Natasha claimed that he attacked her soon after giving birth and when she was breastfeeding “because I didn’t give him due respect”, she says.
The man then allegedly forbade her to use contraception despite her claim that he almost daily raped her.
22 months after her first daughter Eva was born, she gave birth to another girl, Lisa.
Natasha said that the man had a son by his earlier marriage, and saw the abuse and reported it to Turkish police.
Natasha was deported to Ukraine and the man was reportedly thrown out separately from Turkey. She went to stay with her family in Kyiv, but Natasha says he found her later on.
“He told me I belong to him and, no matter what I do, I will never get away – until I die,” she said. “He grabbed me, threw me into a car with the children, and took me to Russia.”
“He put me in a house in the Moscow suburbs for more than two years – from June 2016 to January 2018 – forcibly kept me there, until I managed to escape,” Natasha said.
For Natasha’s final three months, she was “exhausted and bleeding” and reportedly begged him to take her to a doctor, fearing she would otherwise die.
Natasha was eventually allowed to go to a hospital but he allegedly kept the children as “hostages”.
Natasha told the hospital staff about her situation and begged them for help.
The hospital staff fooled the man into bringing the children, then demanded he takes her blood test results to another hospital department.
During his absence, nurses and doctors had arranged a getaway car that took her into hiding, arranged by the women’s refuge.
Natasha still lives in fear that he will find her.
Russian police are now reported to be searching for the man.