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Life was difficult in southern India. The woman barely had an education, worked manual labour from the age of 12, and as a young woman raised four children by herself after her husband died.
So in 2007 when she agreed to live with and work with a Melbourne family, it was her chance to provide for those back home. Then in her 50s, the prospect of living in a comfortable home in the eastern suburbs was appealing.
Kandasamy (left) and Kumuthini Kannan outside court last month.
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But over the following eight years, life again became exceedingly hard. The woman – who cannot be named for legal reasons – cooked, cleaned and cared for Kumuthini Kannan, her husband Kandasamy and their three children every day. Her passport was taken and she was instructed to have nothing to do with visitors to the Mount Waverley home.
She was suffering sepsis, untreated diabetes and was missing her teeth.
Kandasamy Kannan and Kumuthini Kannan leave the County Court in Melbourne.(Jason South)
The couple paid her just over $3 a day to cook, clean and care for their three children.
Ms Kannan was today sentenced to eight years prison with a four-year non-parole period and Mr Kannan was handed six years with a non-parole period of three years.
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