not because i was too proud to do that. that s when an acquaintance introduced her to the owner of several chicago massage parlors. a businessman named alex campbell. the first time i talked to him was over the phone. there was nothing suspicious about him. just, like, regular person, talked to me about a job. even though julia has no experience as a massage therapist, campbell offers her a job. in the beginning, he was her knight in shining armor. she was in a situation. he came along and saved her from that situation. he gave her a job. he gave her a car to get around in. he gave her an apartment to live in and she was paid very well. after a few months of constant attention, julia reluctantly begins a romantic relationship with campbell. i would not say that i liked him so much at first, but i think i got used to him, and then i realized that it was not even my decision, it just, like, happened.
doesn t belong to you anymore, now your life belongs to me. i am your kingdom and i am your god. campbell then gave julia an ultimatum. if she ever begin disrespected him or angered him, she would be taken to the basement. he used his basement as a place kind of torturing people. and he said that whoever comes in this basement will never come out alive from that place. and he said that it was really easy to get rid of the dead bodies. for six months, julia says she was a virtual prisoner. forced to work 12-hour days in the spa doing bookkeeping and massage. i told him, i am going to leave, just give me back my pass port, because i m done. then he said that it s not going to happen. he would never just let me go. mr. campbell had told her
that he had police officers working for him. that he had government officials working for him. that if she went to the police, she was going to get arrested. she was going to go to jail then she would be deported after she got done with that. and that was how he had her under his control. but when another young ukrainian named masha mysteriously vanished, julia decided to escape. i didn t have any plans. i didn t know what to do, where to go. nothing. i just had this in my mind, i need to leave now or never. in her panic, julia suddenly recalled a phone number of a friend and waited anxiously for her ride. i was so afraid, any car that would hear passing by, it was just like freaking out, because i thought that was alex. can t you just leave me alone? you better bring a in here. if you don t, we will go to war. now get my [ bleep ]. check it out.
horseshoe tattoo. i came up with several other girls with the exact same tat o tattoos. web i started seeing all of this come together, i had reason to fear this girl was in serious danger and i needed to get her in a safe haven before he finds her. julia, who had a master s in education from ukraine, struck vanhorn as an unlikely girlfriend to such a violent felo felon. she d come to the u.s. to become an opare. my plan was to improve my english and learn the culture of this country. after working three months caring for a family of six, the family let her go on thanksgiving weekend, leaving her homeless in a foreign country. the agency that placed her offered no help. my agency told me, you can call your parents and ask for money, and theoretically i could do that, but practically i could not because i was too proud to do that. that s when an acquaintance
man, and every day it was getting worse and worse and worse. campbell s behavior becomes increasingly threatening and violent. it began to turn around where he started to keep the money and just give her enough money to get something to eat. he had gotten ahold of her passport and her visa and all her immigration documents. she had asked for that stuff back, and he refused to give it to her. so she didn t have no idea where to go, what to do. he started to even yell at me for just no reason, didn t know what was going on. it went to the point when i was really afraid of him. julia soon realizes she is not alone. campbell had four other ukrainian women working at the spa. all were young and all were in the country illegally. they have to totally obey him, whatever he says. if not, they will have to pay for that. julia recalled she first witnessed campbell s brutality