Filipina threatened to return to the Philippines if she did not obey the rules of alleged human traffickers, court in Canada hears

Leticia Sarmento, a Filipina nanny, told a B.C Supreme Court that her employers threatened to send her back home to the Philippines if she complained about her 16-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week work schedule in Vancouver. Sarmiento testified that her employers repeatedly called her stupid in Chinese while poking her in the head. She was never allowed to have private phone calls or leave the house without one of her employers accompanying her.

The trial is currently ongoing.

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