Heartwarming Instagram photos of potential sex slave Chloe Ayling with her young son appear to have saved her life.
The snapshots, which show the young British model cuddling with her now-2-year-old boy, were discovered by her captors when they did a web search of her after they drugged, handcuffed and stuffed her in a trunk during her kidnapping last month, she told cops, according to Britain’s the Sun newspaper.
Ayling, 20, said she was freed because her kidnappers told her it was against their organization’s in-house rules to abduct moms to sell into sex slavery.
“I was not meant to be taken because the boss had seen my Instagram profile, which clearly showed that I was a mum with a young boy and this went against the rules of the organization,’’ she told authorities, according to the Sun.
Ayling, who was kidnapped July 11 after being lured to a fake photo shoot in Milan, Italy, eventually was dumped at the British Consulate there six days later.
One of her alleged Polish-born kidnappers, Lukasz Herba, was quickly apprehended.
Ayling’s lawyer, Daria Pesce, said she may have been abducted because her kidnappers, apparently part of a large international ring, may have gotten a special request for a Brit.
“The organization has been kidnapping girls for Arabian buyers for years, Italian girls, girls of all nationalities,’’ Pesce told the London Evening Standard.
“They may have wanted a British girl, so that is why they kidnapped Chloe.”
