Human Trafficking & Health Care - Shyima's Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JeTAA5-x1o
3:45 min video

A decade ago, Shyima Hall was smuggled into the United States as a 10-year-old slave, forced to cook and clean inside the home of a wealthy Irvine family and, at night, sleep on a squalid mattress in a windowless garage.

On Thursday, the Egyptian-born 22-year-old stood before a federal judge in Montebello with nearly 900 others and was sworn in as naturalized U.S. citizen. The ceremony capped a hard-scrabble journey that began with Hall’s rescue, wound through the foster care system and ended with her living on her own, working, and with ambitions to become a federal agent....

Rest of story: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2011-dec-16-la-me-1216-shyima-hall-20111216-story.html

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