NELSPRUIT – A Lowveld family helped an American woman who had allegedly been held captive for seven years after being trafficked into the country, escape her ordeal.
This drama unfolded on Wednesday when a man was driving in Springs and saw a woman being manhandled by an aggressive man.
The man who requested to only be identified as Leon, told Lowvelder: “I saw from his body language that he was threatening her so I drove around the block. When I came around again and stopped, he ran away and I asked her if everything was alright.” He said the woman was extremely attractive, with long dark wavy hair and blue eyes. “She was crying and I said to myself this girl doesn’t look South African.” The woman then just emotionally poured out to him saying, “Please, phone my mother, tell her I’m not dead, I am still alive”.
She then told Leon that she was American and her name was Ms Anna Kreller (26). She told him she had been lured to South Africa under false pretences and didn’t know where she was, as it was the first time she had managed to escape her circumstances….
