Ex-child sex slave Anneke Lucas reveals she was ‘raped, tortured with a fish hook and almost stabbed to death after being sold into aristocratic paedo gang aged six’
Anneke Lucas claims she was forced to work as a sex slave for a sick aristocratic “club” in Belgium
A FORMER child sex slave has claimed she was raped, tortured and almost stabbed to death after being sold into an aristocratic paedo network at the age of six.
Anneke Lucas has shared her ordeal almost 50 years after she was allegedly forced to work for a sick “club” that operated within Belgium's upper class.
The mum of one claimed she was raped for more than 1,700 hours before escaping at the age of 12 after five-and-a-half years of abuse.
She has never gone to police with her claims because she said she was scared into silence after allegedly watching kids getting killed by sadistic members as a “warning” to others.
Anneke told SunOnline: “It really was the most horrendous crimes you can imagine.
"Children were killed in the most brutal way because members were afraid they would speak out.
“And to make it worse, the abuse was from politicians and officials the public had put their trust in."
A spokesman for the Federal Police in Belgium said they were unable to comment on Anneke’s claims.
Anneke, 53, said she was sold into the paedo network by a family member around her sixth birthday in 1969.
She claimed her family’s cleaning lady “abused and groomed her” before colluding with a relative to pimp her out to the exclusive club for drug-fuelled orgies.
She said: “Around my sixth birthday in 1969 I was taken to an orgy for the first time, in a castle.
“I was used for an S&M show, on a low stage, chained up with an iron dog collar, and made to eat human faeces.
“Afterwards, left lying there like a broken object, I felt so humiliated.”
She claims that despite her repeated protests, she was forced to return to the late night orgies, often held in castles and mansions, at least once a week for five-and-a-half years.
She said: “Usually we were brought into an orgy later on. We were the extra special drug. There were usually a few children, it was not just me.
“I’d end up with people in the private rooms.”
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Anneke claims she was subjected to six hours of rape each week at the hands of as many as 200 paedophiles.
She added: “I calculated that I would have been raped for 1,716 hours before I was 12 years old.
“I had to do it well because there was always the threat of being gotten rid of.”
She said the lethal consequence of running away, speaking out or getting pregnant was hammered home into the kids from the start.
"Children were killed by sadistic members. Boys were more often used for torture than girls, but girls were killed.
“It was the worst thing you could imagine.”
Anneke, who now has a 15-year-old daughter, said she was scared into silence and was too traumatised to speak out, until now.
“I’d been threatened enough to not speak to anyone. I never tried to speak because I was too ashamed,” she said.
She said sick members used extreme tactics to make the children feel "implicated" so they would not go to police.
"We were made to commit violence. I was forced to do things that make my stomach churn," Anneke said.
"It was like a game."
During her years of emotional and physical abuse, Anneke said she felt as though she lived a double life because she still lived at home and attended school in the week.
"I felt isolated and different from everyone else," she said.
"I was shy, with few friends. No one cared for me.
"It was strange because I was viewed as a beautiful object inside the network. Intelligence was valued and encouraged.
"That is not how I felt in my home and school life."
She said she eventually escaped from the network at the age of 12 after almost being “tortured to death” inside a small room in one of the member’s homes.
Anneke claimed she was tied naked to a butcher’s block while five other children were forced to mutilate her with kitchen tools.
“I was strapped to a butcher’s block that was black with the blood of all the children that had come before me.
“One man was forcing five young children to harm me. It was part of their indoctrination.
“There was a crate with everyday hardware tools: screwdrivers, a pen knife, a belt with nails which was put around my arms, a fish hook and an apple corer.
“The apple corer was to make the biggest cuts. The man also stubbed a cigarette out on my arm.
“I still have scars all over my body.
“One girl left a penknife stuck in my arm. She accidentally twisted it as she pulled it out.
“I felt all the pain at once, like being stung by a swarm of bees.
“The blood trickling down my body tickled me. That was the worst part.
“I became scared and I thought I was going to die like all the other children who were not loved enough.
“It was the darkest moment of my life."
She said that at her lowest ebb, when she thought she was minutes from death, Anneke was saved by one of the members.
“Someone who was inside the network did a deal and I was released," she said.
"The agreement was that the man was going to go to work for the politician who was the boss of the network."
Anneke recalled the moment she was released from the butcher's block and told she could leave.
"I was in shock. The children brought me my clothes.
"I made my way through another room. I can remember feeling guilty because I was leaving bloody marks on the carpet.
"I went into a bathroom and I was shocked at seeing myself, covered in blood.
"I opened the door and in the hallway was the young man who got me out."
Thanks to the agreement, Anneke was never forced to return to the club.
She eventually left Belgium in the 80s and moved to Paris and LA before settling in New York.
The mum of one now teaches yoga in jails as part of her non-profit organisation, .
She has battled post-traumatic stress and depression in the years since her ordeal.
But she says she has used a combination of therapy, yoga, meditation and writing to come to terms with what happened.
She shared her story about her years of abuse on the and in order to help others.
“I've become so mindful of triggers that they don't control my everyday existence,” she said.
“It takes so much energy to survive not only the physical violence, but to endure the psychic drain of abuse — to carry the shame.
“I’ve had to use my inner strength to cope with the horrors of those years of abuse. I have to try to cope for the sake of my daughter.”
Anneke has also started a to raise awareness about trafficking which has attracted almost 49,000 signatures.
Belgium is still haunted by a paedophile scandal that shocked the world when it was uncovered in the 1990s.
Notorious paedophile Marc Dutroux was jailed for life in 2004 for a series of child murders.
He was also found to have kidnapped young girls and imprisoned them in tiny dungeons beneath his home.
SunOnline is not suggesting Dutroux was involved in Anneke's claims in any way.
If you have been affected by child abuse or need any support, call the NSPCC helpline on 0808 800 5000 or visit for more details