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Nanny tells human trafficking trial she was forced to work 16-hour days
VANCOUVER – A Filipina nanny has told a human trafficking trial that she was forced to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week after moving to Vancouver with her employers in 2008.
Leticia Sarmiento says that when she worked for the same couple in Hong Kong, she had set hours, two days off a week and was allowed to socialize with other people.
Sarmiento says she also took the children under her care out of the house on her own but that changed when she was brought to Vancouver, where she wasn’t permitted to do anything without constant supervision.
Two years after she arrived in Canada, Sarmiento discovered that she was in the country illegally because her employers had arranged for her to enter with a visitor’s visa, which had long expired.
Franco Yiu Kwan Orr and Oi Ling Nicole Huen are facing human trafficking charges after allegations that they forced their nanny into domestic servitude.
Sarmiento’s three children remain in the Philippines.
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