Around 100 women were kept as slaves on a human egg farm in Georgia where they were fed hormones and treated like cattle.
Their horrifying ordeal has been revealed by three Thai women who were freed from the clutches of the ‘egg mafia’ on January 30 after being exploited for half a year, tabloid Bild reports.
The woman said they were held captive on a ‘human farm’ in the eastern European country of Georgia by a criminal organisation led by Chinese criminals, who sold their eggs on the black market.
One former slave who worked on the egg cell farm bought her freedom and alerted Pavena Hongsakula, founder of a Thai foundation for children and women.
The woman told Ms Pavena that several other Thai women were still held as slaves at the farm as they could not afford to pay for their release.
The eggs collected from the women are understood to have been sold, trafficked in other countries for use in in-vitro fertilisation (IVF), Ms Pavena said at this week’s press conference, according to the Bangkok Post.