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Hopes for better lives lead to slavery in U.S.
Editor's note: This is part of a series on the CNN Freedom Project on
domestic servitude. Read more about some in domestic servitude who are so
desperate to escape, they take their own lives. And get an update on the
nanny in domestic servitude who suffered extensive burns when, she said, a
Gadhafi relative poured boiling water on her.
(CNN) – One was sold by her impoverished parents, the other willingly left
her family to become a nanny. But both found years of their lives turned to
domestic servitude before finally finding freedom.
CNN's Martin Savidge tells the story of Isabel. Her mother sold her into
slavery at around age 7 to a Taiwanese family who later moved to the United
States in an upscale southern California neighborhood.
So as other children went to school, Isabel cooked and cleaned. Her bedroom
was the garage, her bed the floor. Her food - whatever the family didn't
want, often spoiled or soured. And there were the beatings, she says, often
with a spatula and once, when her owner accused her of drinking a cup of tea
, a toilet bowl brush.
Isabel finally met someone who helped her escape and is now in her 20s and
trying to learn what many her age have already mastered: driving a car,
ordering at a restaurant, understanding money. No criminal charges were
brought against the family who brought Isabel to the U.S. from Taiwan. But
she has settled a civil lawsuit with that family and is no longer in touch
with them. Watch more of Isabel's story above
CNN's Gena Somra reports on Laome, who was 17 in Nigeria when she thought
she was getting an education in the U.S. in exchange for becoming a nanny
for a wealthy Nigerian American woman, Bidemi Bello. Instead, she says, she
had instead become a slave. Bello, Laome says, instilled that fear in her
right from the beginning, abusing her almost every day.
She later escaped with the help of friends, and Bello was brought to trial.
Found guilty of human trafficking, Bello faces 11 years behind bars. After
that, she will be deported back to Nigeria.
For Laome, she says that with the trial behind her, she is finally free. |
