Story out of Woodbury, Minnesota:
A Woodbury nanny from China was starved, paid a pittance and beaten relentlessly until a police officer found her wandering bruised and afraid in the middle of the night, according to charges filed Friday in Washington County.
The 58-year-old woman worked for Lili Huang, who was charged with five felonies including labor trafficking, false imprisonment and assault.
The nanny told a police detective that she finally fled the house when Huang threatened to kill her with a knife. An examination at United Hospital in St. Paul showed that the nanny, who is not named in the complaint, had numerous broken bones.
She had cellphone photos of cuts, scrapes and bruises to her body, head and face.
When officers found the nanny wandering in the street, she had blackened eyes.
Police from four cities and agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security searched Huang’s home and arrested her there, the complaint said.
A bag hidden under the nanny’s mattress contained a large amount of her hair, which the defendant allegedly ripped from the nanny’s head. The nanny had been hiding it, the complaint said, so Huang wouldn’t find it “and force her to eat it.”
The victim told police she had worked for a wealthy family in Shanghai as a nanny for their minor daughter. She said the defendant treated her well in China, and asked her to provide nanny services for the Woodbury family.
After she arrived in the U.S. on a visa in late March, the nanny was forced to work as many as 18 hours a day doing child care, cooking and cleaning, for which she was paid $890 a month. Police calculated her salary was about $1.80 an hour, but she evidently didn’t receive any of it. Cont.
Story from - The Star Tribune
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