The French national has claimed that her husband used to assault them physically and mentally “on a daily basis” and added that he was “very violent”.
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In a shocking incident, a French woman and her five children were rescued from a house in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after her husband allegedly kept them captive and abused them for more than a decade.
According to BBC Urdu, the woman has been identified as Sylvie Yasmina.
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The French national has claimed that her husband used to assault them physically and mentally “on a daily basis” and added that he was “very violent”.
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This incident came to light when one of their sons somehow managed to escape the residence and reached a nearly police station to lodge a complaint. Ultimately, this led to a major raid at the property situated in Bara, a remote town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
After visiting the location, police team saw Yasmina and her five children in a cramped and “extremely dilapidated room,” while they had wounds all over their bodies.
Police officials said that all six of them were later taken to a women’s shelter home in Peshawar and are now planning to go back to France.
The woman told police officials that her husband had “effectively imprisoned” the family ever since they shifted from Australia to Pakistan in 2014.
“According to the woman… She was not allowed to meet anyone; their two older children had missed their studies, while the three younger children were born in Pakistan and never enrolled in school,” BBC Urdu quoted a police official as saying.
As of now, authorities in Pakistan have not identified Yasmina’s husband, who is said to be a Pakistani national.
Earlier, he was reportedly staying illegally in Australia when the couple met. At first, the tied the knot in 2002 and continued to live in Australia till 2014.
Later on, they decided to shift to Pakistan along with their two children. Since then, Yasmina did not have any communication with the outside world.
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