A FAMILY enslaved two Hungarian women and forced them to work as prostitutes, a court heard.

At their home in Spa Road, Bolton, Ferenc Dardai, his partner Melania Kiraly and their sons 22-year-old Ferenc Dardai Jnr and Daniel Dardai, aged 19, kept the women in poverty, taking them to clients who called wanting sex and spending their earnings in casinos.

At Bolton Crown Court, Mark Monaghan, prosecuting, told the court that, when rescued after police visited the house on March 27 this year, one of the women was so malnourished she weighed just seven and a half stone.

She had been forced to use separate plates and cutlery from the family, who regarded her as dirty because of the sex work they were forcing her to do.

Mr Monaghan said that the first woman was already a prostitute in Hungary when she came to Bolton a year ago, brought by a man with whom she shared a house and her earnings.

She was intending to support her 12-year-old son, whom she left behind in Hungary.

But in late 2013 she met Ferenc Jnr and moved into his family's home St Helen's Road and then Spa Road.

Before long Ferenc Jnr and 42-year-old Kiraly were beating her.

She was given only bread, butter and salami to eat and forced to see up to five clients a day with her services advertised on the AdultWork website.

"She had so many beatings she lost count," said Mr Monaghan, who added that she would be hit for not smiling enough at clients or refusing to work.

No medical help was ever sought for her injuries and the woman did not leave the house other than to work, earning the family up to £1,000 a week. She was forced to hand over all her earnings.

Ferenc Jnr even changed her Facebook password so she could not contact friends in Hungary.

"She was told she could not leave until she earned a certain amount of money," said Mr Monaghan.

Mr Monaghan said the second woman, who had a young child, was told she would have to leave the house unless she also worked as a prostitute.

Having nowhere else to go she agreed, and from mid-2014 worked as a prostitute, also handing over all her cash and suffering beatings.

Ferenc Dardai Snr, aged 43, Kiraly and Ferenc Dardai Jnr all pleaded guilty to two counts of sex trafficking and Daniel Dardai admitted a single count.

Kiraly also pleaded guilty to entering into a sham marriage with a man from Pakistan at Manchester Register Office on July 8 2013.

Three younger children of the Dardai family who lived in the Spa Road house have since been sent back to Hungary to live with grandparents.

Defending Ferenc Jnr, Phillip Parry stressed that he had not trafficked the women into England and the first woman was already a prostitute when he met her.

"This wasn't abuse, violence or trafficking from the outset," he said.

Joseph Hart, defending Ferenc Snr, said the violence towards the women, which he was "inadequate" to stop, was committed by his wife and elder son.

"He accepts he knew what the women were doing and he said he didn't want to make his sons angry," said Hart.

"At the time he claimed not to see what was wrong about the situation, but he does now."

Wayne Jackson, for Kiraly, who sat sobbing in the dock, said her involvement had been more limited than that of her eldest son while Virginia Hayton, representing Daniel Dardai, said he had not wanted the second girl to become involved in prostitution.

She said: "It led to fights with Ferenc Jnr. He lost those fights and had to turn a blind eye."

The family will be sentenced by Judge Peter Davies on Monday.

It is expected that an application for a Slavery and Trafficking Prevention Order, the first in the country since the introduction of the Modern Slavery Act earlier this year, will be heard at a later date.