Woman held over Chinese nanny ‘kept as slave’
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A MINNESOTA woman has been charged with beating and starving a woman she brought from China to work as a nanny, holding her in a state of “slavery or indentured servitude,” according to US prosecutors.
Lili Huang, 35, of Woodbury, is charged in Washington County with five felony counts, including labor trafficking, false imprisonment and assault.
Huang remains in jail after an initial court appearance on Friday, the Star Tribune reported.
The 58-year-old nanny, who was not named in the complaint, arrived in the United States in late March. According to the complaint, she was forced to work up to 18 hours a day doing child care, cooking and cleaning. Police calculate her pay at about US$1.80 an hour, but she apparently did not receive any of it.
The nanny had been found wandering in the street, her eyes blackened. An examination found she had many broken bones.
She was given crackers for meals and her weight had dropped from 54.5 kilograms when she arrived in the US to under 40, the complaint said.
She was never allowed to leave the house, the complaint said. The nanny told a police investigator she eventually escaped after Huang threatened to kill her with a knife. She told police she was looking for the airport so she could go home to China.
Washington County prosecutor Pete Orput said the nanny had been held in appalling conditions, the St Paul Pioneer Press reported.
Police from four cities and agents from the US Department of Homeland Security searched Huang’s home and arrested her.
A bag hidden under the nanny’s mattress contained a large amount of her hair, which Huang allegedly ripped from the woman’s head. The nanny had been hiding it so Huang wouldn’t find it “and force her to eat it,” according to the complaint.
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