20-Year-Old British Model Horrifyingly Gets Kidnapped & ‘Auctioned On Dark Web’

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Ayling's modeling agency set her up with a photo shoot in Milan with a seemingly legitimate retailer.

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Upon arriving in Italy, instead of being greeted by photographers, Ayling was confronted with men and a sedative syringe.

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A British model was lured to a photo shoot in Milan before being kidnapped and drugged to be sold on the ‘deep web’, it is claimed.

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The men reportedly put a pillowcase over her head, stabbed her with the needle, stuffed her in a duffel bag, and took her to the French border.

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According to police, she was then stuffed into the boot of a car and driven miles away and ‘put up for sale on an auction site for more than £230,000’.

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At a sensational police press conference in Milan, her captor was named as Polish-born Lukasz Herba, 30, who is accused of trying to sell her on the internet for 300,000 Euros (£270,000) through Bitcoin.

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When officers arrested him he was found in possession of a pamphlet on Black Death which offers the sexual services of women for auction on the dark web.

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A picture supposedly uploaded to the organization's website showed a topless woman tied up alongside details including measurements and nationality in an apparent advertisement - although the image is believed to have been taken from an unrelated pornographic film.

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Corriere della Sera reported the model had been lured to the fake shoot from Paris and was then loaded into the back of a car and driven to an abandoned shop south of Milan before she was then taken on to a farmhouse near Turin 120 miles away.

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It is thought she was kept in the bag for two-and-a-half hours and stayed in Turin for six days.

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According to media reports, Herba rented the cottage in Turin telling the property's owner that he was an artist who wanted to find 'inspiration' for his paintings.

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While she was drugged, the model's captors handcuffed her to a dresser, snapped nude photos of her, and reportedly auctioned her off for a starting bid of $300,000 in bitcoin.

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Then, after coming out of her stupor, Ayling told her captors she had a 2-year-old child -- and they let her go free soon after.

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The organized crime group known as Black Death said it was a ‘mistake’ to abduct her because she had a young child which was against their policies.

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The suspect was named as 30-year-old Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish man who lives in Britain, and he was arrested on July 18th on suspicion of kidnap and extortion.

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Police are still unsure whether the group was running online auctions was claimed or whether it was just a scam to con people into paying.

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Milan police officer Lorenzo Bucossi told reporters that Herba was allegedly working for offered ‘mercenary services’ on the dark web, which included ‘bombing attacks, kidnapping and the selling of girls on the dark web.’

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The Daily Beast reported that a note found on the assailant's computer was left for Ayling in remedial English:

"You are certainly aware of your value on the human slavery market and must make a note that this isn't personal, this is a business ... A mistake was made by capturing you, especially considering you are a young mother that should have in no circumstances be lured into kidnapping. The second important factor you are very well aware of is your overall protection by one of our men and very well respected men who made a very clear and solid stance in your case."