A British woman has revealed she was sold as a sex slave in Greece and forced to work as a prostitute for six years after going on holiday to the country with her mother at the age of 14.

Megan Stephens (not her real name), 25, was regularly made to sleep with up to 50 men a day - and was once forced to have sex with 110 men in just 22 hours - after the man she thought was her boyfriend sold her to a sex trafficker called Leon.

Megan, who is keeping her location a secret as she lives in fear of the sex traffickers finding her and hurting her family, has written a memoir of her experiences called Bought & Sold with a ghostwriter.

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The 25-year-old, who uses the pseudonym Megan Stephens, was sold as a sex slave in Greece at the age of 14. She spent six years working in brothels and as an escort and was once forced to have sex with 120 men in one day (file photo)

She was bought and sold by several traffickers, being forced to work on the street and in brothels, before she eventually made her escape six-and-a-half years ago in 2009.

Megan, who said she has found the strength to speak out now she is expecting a baby with her partner, told FEMAIL: 'I used to put myself down about how stupid I'd been. If I could go back now and tell myself what to do, I'd say to myself to get up and run and do something more to stop what was happening.

'But through therapy I've realised I felt so weak inside and mentally broken down that it was impossible.

'So I don't really know what I'd say to myself. I don't think I could have done things differently.

'When I look back on that time I feel angry with myself and incredibly sad. When you truly believe that you're nothing, you don't even consider the possibility that you have a choice about anything.

'Because you've got so used to being a puppet you've forgotten that you were ever able to think and act for yourself.

'I believe that if I'd been more mentally strong and I had people around me I could turn to I could have got out easier. But I didn't, it was just me.'

Megan, says that she now realises that her troubles began long before she made the fateful trip to Greece with her mother.

Megan is now happily settled and looking forward to giving birth in March. She says impending motherhood has made her feel 'normal' but she dare not reveal her identity as she still fears the traffickers will hunt her down and hurt her family (file photo)

Her parents split up when she was four years old, and both struggled with drinking problems - although she maintains that her mother was a wonderful parent when she wasn't drinking.

When Megan was 14, she went on holiday to a seaside town in Greece and met an Albanian man called Jak in a bar. She admits she was 'desperate to be loved' and felt bowled over by his attention.

Her mother wasn't overly keen on 22-year-old Jak, whose eyes she said were 'cold and hard'. However she allowed her daughter to spend all her time with him as she enjoyed a romance with a bar owner called Nikos.

Struggling with her own past, Megan believes that her mother wasn't in a fit state to be a proper parent at the time.

I truly did believe that what had happened must have been my fault. I was becoming dependent on him, practically and emotionally.

At the end of their stay, Megan managed to persuade her mother not to return home so they could both spend time with their new love interests.

Within days, Jak started telling Megan that he loved her. He also confided that his mother had thyroid cancer and that he couldn't afford to pay her medical bills.

Soon after, he took her to live in an apartment in Athens. There he persuaded Megan to take a job dancing in a topless bar, promising she would only have to do it for long enough to raise the money to pay for his mother's surgery.

'I hated every minute of every night I danced at the bar and I could never look at the faces of the men who were looking at me,' Megan recalled.

But she admits she felt 'like a hero' for helping to save his mother's life.

When Megan's mother finally left for home, Megan convinced her to let her stay with Jak.

After two weeks, he took her to a burger bar where he introduced her to a man called Leon, telling her: 'This is your new boss.'

Megan contracted syphilis after being forced to have sex without a condom for extra money. She was sold into the sex industry by an Albanian man called Jak, who she believed was her boyfriend (file photo)

They spoke in Greek before Leon passed Jak a wad of folded bank notes. It wasn't until much later that Megan realised Leon had 'bought a stake' in her.

Leon spoke to her in English, saying: 'So you know what you're going to be doing, don't you? And you're happy with it?'

She glanced at Jak, who said: 'I love you. It's alright.'

Jak then took her to an office building and told her to go to the top floor. She went upstairs to find herself at a lawyer's office. Inside, he locked the door and pushed her into a small windowless room.

'There was a single bed and at the foot of it a video camera on a tripod,' she said. 'I was so frightened and convinced that he was going to murder me that I just stood there making little whimpering noises like a defeated and submissive animal.

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'I was so shocked my mind went completely blank and I think I barely struggled as he flipped me over on my back, pulled up my skirt, ripped off my pants and forced himself on me. The pain was excruciating, but I was too traumatised to even cry.'

The lawyer had sex with her again before thrusting a wad of €50 notes at her.

She expected Jak to be shocked by what happened. Instead, he told her he was sorry but promised her it wouldn't be for long and that soon they would have enough money to start a family, save for a car and buy a house.

Megan recalls her confusion that the man she believed was in love with her would make her do something like that.

But as he started talking about the money she could make, it suddenly hit her that he'd set it all up and that he expected her to do it again.

'Suddenly I understood it and all the air that should have been flowing into my lungs seemed to have fathered in a solid lump at the back of the throat so that I couldn't breathe,' she said.

She cried hysterically and desperately wanted to speak to her mother, but Jak wouldn't allow it. He took her out on his motorbike and drove up into the hills on the other side of the city.

Megan told him she couldn't do what he was asking, and demanded to speak to her family. He grabbed her by the hair, threw her to the ground and started kicking her before throwing a rock at her. Then he drove off and left her on her own in the dark for hours.

By the time he returned, she admits she was so relieved not to be alone anymore that she forgave him for assaulting her.

I don't think I could have done things any differently. I believe that if I'd been more mentally strong and if I'd had people around me I could have turned to I could have got out easier. But I didn't, it was just me

'I truly did believe that what had happened must have been my fault,' she said.

From then on she noticed a marked changed in Jak's attitude. He criticsed everything about her and she lived in constant fear of him being assaulted again. But she was also terrified that if she did something wrong he would leave her.

'I was becoming dependent on him, practically and emotionally,' she said.

Two days after she had been offered up to the lawyer, Megan started working as an escort. She moved from one hotel to another and was having sex with eight to ten men every day.

It was only then that she started having sex with Jak. He didn't force her, but she says she didn't enjoy it even though she still believed she loved him.

Jak's moods were unpredictable and he would fly into a rage and hit her for no reason. One day he poured a jug of water over her head and spat at her in a restaurant, and he tormented her by talking about her mother and what he would like to do to her sexually.

Then Megan started feeling sick and discovered she was ten weeks pregnant. She told how Jak kicked her in the stomach, causing her to miscarry at the age of 14.

The physical violence continued and rarely a day passed without him slapping or punching her or dragging her around the room by the hair.

After she had spent six months in Athens and a brief stint in Italy, working the streets as a prostitute, Jak told Megan he was going home to his family.

He left her with an Albanian man Elek, who she had to give half her money to. The other half she wired to Jak at the end of the week.

Elek set her to work in a brothel where men paid €20 for five minutes with her. By the end of her first night she'd had sex with more than 50 clients.

Megan has written a memoir of her experiences called Bought & Sold

As weeks turned into months, she was moved from brothel to brothel, having sex with an average of 50 men a night.

On one occasion, she had sex with 110 men in a single 22-hour shift before being violently sick. The brothel owner closed up early when he saw the state she was in.

'I thought that was decent of him, which shows just how distorted my sense of normality had become,' Megan said.

Elek eventually sold Megan on to another pimp called Cristoph and she continued to work in brothels as well as doing escort work.

All the time she was working as a prostitute, she spoke to her mother on the phone pretending that everything was okay.

The pimps forced her to send happy, smiling photos of herself pretending to work in a café to her mother to keep up the pretence.

In reality, she suffered physical violence on a daily basis and contracted syphilis after being forced to have sex without a condom for extra money.

Megan only managed to escape the sex traffickers after hitting rock bottom and attempting suicide when she was 20.

She was sectioned and spent three months in hospital, where the staff won her trust.

They contacted her mother and the pair were reunited. Now, although Megan has said she doesn't blame her for what happened, the pair are no longer in close contact.

'To be honest, I don't see my mum really at all. We talk now and again, but we're not close. It's sort of at arms length. I don't have much to do with her,' she explained.

'I think it's just the fact that I've got to a point where I'm happy in the bubble that I'm in now. In a way, she is sort of in the past.'

After returning to the UK, Megan struggled with alcohol issues and it's only in the past year and a half that she's been able to confront what happened and stop blaming herself.

She is now happily settled with her partner and they are looking forward to the birth of their child in March.

'I've tended to pick the wrong kind of people and I've had trust issues and it didn't work from both sides,' she explained.

'But I moved away from home and went into rehab and I met this guy from my church. We started as friends and he wasn't someone I'd ever thought I would go for.

'It's the first time I've actually fallen for someone's personality. It's amazing and it has helped me so much.

'Being pregnant has played a big part. It's made me feel normal and capable because I'm taking on that responsibility.'

She also hopes to set up a charity to help other sex trafficking victims in the future.

'It's something that's in my heart that I'm passionate about,' she explained. 'It is something I would like to do.'

However, Megan admits that she is still scared that such a thing could happen to her again.

She said: 'I do think most of the time that it could never happen again. But there are still parts of me that are quite vulnerable to believing everything that someone says. I still have to be very careful.

'Jak has tried to contact me and my family through social media, trying to ask people where I am.

'He still frightens me. He's very powerful in my opinion, and he's not just one person there's a lot of them and they're capable of hurting my family.

'I thought about pursuing legal action but I was just too afraid to ever mention names. I would still be too scared to go down that route.'