A woman who was brought to Australia by a Sydney couple, who forced her to work 24 hours a day and restricted who she could see and where she could go, has revealed what her life was like as a slave. Court documents reveal she was threatened against leaving, told she couldn t socialise with others and, when she eventually fled the home, the couple hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back. Joshua and Shiela McAleer, from Rockdale in Sydney s south, have pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to their treatment of the woman, including conducting a business involving the forced labour of another person between November 26, 2014, and October 30, 2016, and harbouring an unlawful non-citizen.
A woman who was brought to Australia by a Sydney couple, who forced her to work 24 hours a day and restricted who she could see and where she could go, has revealed what her life was like as a slave. Court documents reveal she was threatened against leaving, told she couldn t socialise with others and, when she eventually fled the home, the couple hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back. Joshua and Shiela McAleer, from Rockdale in Sydney s south, have pleaded guilty to a series of charges relating to their treatment of the woman, including conducting a business involving the forced labour of another person between November 26, 2014, and October 30, 2016, and harbouring an unlawful non-citizen.
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A Filipina woman who was hired by a Sydney couple to clean and care for their family says she was kept like a slave in that she was forced to work in the pairâs grocery shop and had restrictions placed on where she was allowed to go.
And when she managed to escape from their southern Sydney home, the husband and wife hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back.
A Filipino woman who was hired by an Australian couple to clean and care for their family says she was kept like a slave in that she was forced to work in the pair’s grocery shop and had restrictions placed on where she was allowed to go. And when she managed to escape from their southern Sydney home, the husband and wife hired a private detective to track her down and bring her back.
DOMINIC LORRIMER/Sydney Morning Herald
Joshua McAleer sought the assistance of a private investigator in finding the woman days after she had left the home.