![]() She said that when she was at the house in 2017, there was only a cupboard for clothes and a double bed. ![]() READ | 'They made me sit like a frog': Sex worker tells court of alleged abuse at Cape Town brothel "It is because I was only concerned about this house that I was staying in," she responded. He said there was a small shop, a family in the yard, and that half of the house was partitioned for rental, which she did not seem to know about, and she had left out some furniture when she was asked to describe the room she stayed in. "My clients will argue that they don't know you from a bar of soap," he said. The witness, who is now 18, said she never concentrated on what was around her or whether she had to go to the kitchen to fetch a spoon to open and close the door.ĭefence lawyer Bashir Sibda added several other details about the house that she did not appear to be aware of, and said he would argue that her lack of knowledge of this showed she was not at the house. It emerged via the defence on Tuesday that there was no latch, but that the door was opened and closed by wedging a teaspoon into the door opening mechanism. The previous witness testified that they were locked in their room and only allowed out for sex work. The defence took the witness to task for apparent discrepancies in the layout of the house she said she was kept in, with a long time devoted to whether there was a latch on the outside door of their room, as she had alleged. READ | 'They were nice in the beginning': sex worker testifies at human trafficking trial The accused, Edward Tambe Ayuk and his wife Leandra Williams Ayuk from Springbok in the Northern Cape, and Yannick Agbor Ayuk (Edward's brother), have also pleaded not guilty to charges of debt bondage, using the services of a victim of trafficking, living on the earnings of prostitution, assault with the intent to do grievous bodily harm, violation of the Children's Act, multiple counts of rape, kidnapping, and dealing in drugs. Two men and a woman have pleaded not guilty to multiple charges linked to human trafficking. She said she spent two months at the house before escaping with the help of a relative. The State had submitted that the woman, who cannot be named, was only in her early teens when she went by bus from East London to Brooklyn, a bustling suburb in Milnerton, Cape Town, to work at the house. The isiXhosa interpreter, doubling as her emotional support and passing her tissues, opened the door for her, and she sobbed as she made her way out of the court. She struggled to open the door, which was shut firmly with an old-fashioned brass knob.
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