NELSPRUIT – The ordeal of Ms Anna Kreller (26) is not over as police have now detained her. There is still debate on if she is an American or a British citizen, but police have confirmed she is not a South African.
Leon added that Kreller explained to him that seven years ago she had met a man from Cape Town over the Internet who tricked her into believing he wanted to marry her. The man travelled to America to fetch her and took her back with him to the Mother City.
The young woman also told Leon that when she got to Cape Town, the man immediately took her passport and assaulted her severely, breaking her nose in the process. She showed him the scars of old stab wounds on her body .She said he had then forced her into a life of prostitution and she was given to other people who had held her captive in a house in Geduld in Springs. Keller added they had tried to force her to take drugs over the years. Although she didn’t take drugs, she got addicted to alcohol.”
Leon asked her why she had never had gone for help before and she told him she had once gone to a police station to ask for help, but they had refused to help her as she had no passport or identity document.
“She cried about her two sons, whom I assume she had with the man who brought her to South Africa. However, she was so emotional, I couldn’t get the full story of what had happened from her.”….
