A teen who was lured to the UK with the promise of a 'free education' was kept as a slave for more than a decade, a court heard.Job Centre worker Afolake Adeniji, 50, allegedly tricked the now 27-year-old woman into flying to London from her home in Nigeria in 2003, when she was just 13.
She was allegedly subjected to a campaign of exploitation that left her with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Promised a better life, she agreed to come and live with Adeniji and her family first in Beckton, east London, and then Chelmsford, Essex.
But the teenager was forced to wake up at 5.30am each morning to take care of Adeniji's children and spend the rest of her day completing menial household chores, jurors heard.
The alleged victim claimed she could only eat her dinner once she had fed Adeniji before the routine was repeated the following day, Southwark Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Irshad Sheikh said: "She was completely submissive to the defendant and her family and any confidence she had was