incident or to get into the papers or anything like this. the. nine months after fleeing her captor, lily finally received the $6,000 as promised in her original contract. and what was the final cost per hour for her three years of labor? about 23 cents an hour. in 2009 lily was finally reunited with her husband and had a baby girl. she s a great girl. lift me up from the bottom. she support me to get better in if life and everything. she is s really everything for me. because without her, i don t know how to do. because she really understand me and she really is she s everything.
hello. how are you? beautiful baby. today lily is in the u.s. on a legal visa and works as a nanny in san francisco. my life now is very happy and i have my baby and my husband is also hear. so now it s really happy that my life has really changed. the tv is not forever. while lily s story was ultimately resolved happily, lily represents a tiny fraction of those who silently suffer. liou says for every lily, there are hundreds of other workers trapped and aren t empowered enough to run. a big problem is if you are residing in a country where you don t feel like the laws protect you, you re never going to feel safe. inspections, please open the
i just cleaned the car from inside and outside and everything. then she was telling me why don t you clean the car? i told you every day you have to clean the car. i was really, really mad. i went outside and just stay there. and i said i cannot again. if i see heidi i will pack my stuff. i just need help. someone knocked at the door, i opened the door and there was lily. i was crying. i said, please help me. so i took her in. alarmed, heidi hid lily in the back of her car under a blanket and took her to the local police. the police directed them to the fbi. when lily s employer went to police asking them to find her, they refused saying she had left voluntarily. panicked about being exposed, the former oppress or pressured
modern-day slave, lily had lost all hope. working up to 22 hours a day, lily says her employers even made her work when she had debilitating fevers. penniless because the family refused to pay her, lily lived a life of desperate isolation and growing depression. she s you know, my everything. back in indonesia, lily s husband andy had heard nothing from his wife for three long years. he feared that she was dead. can i call somebody here? i don t know. because she don t have phone, won t give me number. really hard. there s no communication with her. finally in 2006, lily reached a breaking point. the diplomat s wife who insisted that lily wash the car, accused her of shirking her duties.
from another diplomat she leaped at the chance. i believe diplomats are really nice people. but this family could not have been more different. after two years, lily finally persuaded her captors to send $1,000 home to her family. afraid and isolated, she didn t ask for more. no one wants to take a chance of putting their family in danger or at risk. threats like. we ll hurt your family or maybe you ll report you to the authorities and tell them that you re the one who s doing something wrong. you re the one who s here illegally and it s your fault and no one is going to believe you. after years of isolation and humiliation, lily was near her breaking point. she began to fear she could spend her whole life enslaved to