For generations, starry-eyed young women have been among humanity’s most vulnerable to a slimy sales pitch.

It is the pimp’s credo: Tell them what they want to hear. Money, fame, luxury, whatever seals the deal.

And modelling has long been a lure for the naive, with many of the worst sexual predators actually being legitimate actors in the fashion industry. Hidden in their opaque tales are the treble hooks.

For the young women ensnared in a sickening nightmare in Myanmar, only death ended their ordeals.

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Vera Kravtsova, 26, was a striking young Belarusian woman eager to make a name for herself on the world’s catwalks. A university graduate, she had left Minsk for St. Petersburg before she saw an ad on the web looking for models in exotic Bangkok, Thailand.

It was too good to be tr

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