Survivor becomes a U.S. citizen, and graduates from college

June 2003—One of our clients (female) who was lured into the United States by the traffickers with promises of better life, but instead was held in involuntary servitude and exploited for 9 years in the Bronx, New York, required to work for the traffickers at their home as a household servant without pay, abused physically and emotionally, not allowed to keep any money (given to her by others as gift), not allowed to keep her documents, forbidden from speaking to anyone outside the traffickers= family, forbidden from using the telephone, denied education after high school, her captors confiscated her paychecks when she was allowed to work at fast food restaurant close to their residence, threatened with deportation when she disobeyed orders and when her services were considered unsatisfactory, threatened with harm to herself and her family in Nigeria where her captors boasted they could buy the law enforcement, was rescued from her captors in 1998, had recently graduated from college with a B.S. in Accounting. She has also become a naturalized citizen of the United States.