Vietnamese woman enslaved and totured for 13 years

For 13 years, a Vietnamese couple abused and tortured a young woman they kept as a virtual slave,until she was finally rescued by a compassionate neighbour.The couple used electric cables, wooden sticks and pliers to torture her.They had kept her as an unpaid maid and let her sleep only three hours at night. Scars covered 37 per cent of her body. Her suffering only ended after a 70-year-old neighbour spirited her away to a farm outside Hanoi.She had reported the abuse to local police three times,but they did nothing. The couple first denied,then admitted the barbarous treatment.

New Words
virtual->being something in effect even if not in reality or not conforming to the generally accepted definition of the term