'˜Cruel' human trafficker forced woman to work as sex slave at Leeds bus station

Jozef Sztojka.Jozef Sztojka.
Jozef Sztojka.
A sex trafficker who forced a woman to work as a prostitute at Leeds bus station has been jailed after being found guilty of offences under the Modern Slavery Act.

Jozef Sztojka forced the victim into approaching men and offer unprotected sexual services for £30 a time after arranging for her to be brought to West Yorkshire from Hungary.

A judge who jailed Sztojka for nine years said: “It is impossible to imagine a more cruel way to behave to another human being.”

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The 36-year-old took the vulnerable victim’s money and identify documents from her as soon as she arrived in Leeds in March this year then forced her to work as a prostitute at the bus station.

A jury at Leeds Crown Court heard the woman had flown to the UK from her home in Budapest after being promised a job working as a cleaner.

The woman had lost her council house in the Hungarian capital and her son had been taken into care.

She saw the job offer as her only way to earn enough money find to new accommodation in her home city so she could be re-united with her child,

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