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Woman Claims Bank Worker Enslaved Her
WASHINGTON (CN) - A Bolivian woman claims a World Bank employee enslaved her after luring her to the United States to work as a nanny.
Virginia Carazani sued Emma Zegarra in Federal Court, alleging human trafficking, slavery and breach of contract.
Carazani claims Zegarra gave her a contract "which promised reasonable working conditions and decent pay," but when she got here, Zegarra "completely disregarded the contract" and forced her "to work around the clock, seven days a week" for absolutely nothing.
Carazani, 35, Zegarra, of Vienna, Va., first employed her in Bolivia, paying her $100 a month to care for her two children and do household chores.
In 2006, Zegarra took a job with the World Bank, and promised Carazani $7 an hour and a five-day work week with health insurance for her and her young son, plus overtime and sick leave if she would move to the United States to work for the family, according to the complaint.
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"In an effort to terrify Ms. Carazani, the defendant told Ms. Carazani that a device in her World Bank office allowed Zegarra to listen to Ms. Carazani's phone conversations in the home," the complaint states. "The belief that all of her telephone calls were monitored prevented Ms. Carazani from telling her family about the abuse she was suffering in the United States. By instilling fear in Ms. Carazani, the Defendant kept Ms. Carazani isolated from the outside world. Ms. Carazani was unable to tell anyone she was being held in forced labor."
http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/27/43401.htm
obamanut2012
(26,158 posts)This enslaving of "domestics" from other countries seem to happen alot. There's a spotlight on human trafficking re: the sex industry, but not on the housekeeping/nanny industries.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)and $7 per hour!
Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)and they had done exact same thing -- taken away the woman's passport so that she was a virtual prisoner.