A woman slave, Known as Zunduri, 22, was forced to work in a dry cleaning business, tortured and chained at the neck to a desk by a Mexican family for or more than two years got so hungry she would eat the polythene wrapping on the clothes she was forced to iron.
The 22-year-old, managed to escape her captors who didn’t tie her chains properly and is recovering from her ordeal in hospital in Mexico City. She was forced to work in a dry cleaning business, made to iron clothes for 12 hours with only one meal a day and beaten when she tried to take a break. The ordeal left her with horrific scars across her body.
A 22-year-old woman who was chained at the neck to a desk and kept as a slave for more than two years has escaped.
Beaten and abused Zunduri was forced to iron clothes for 12 hours a day and allowed one meal by her brutal captors.
Her neck is scarred and she has cuts and bruises all over her body where she was punished by the family holding her captive.
Zunduri who is now recovering from her ordeal in hospital said:” I was tortured. There is no part on my body without scars.”
“I want them to pay for every tear, every pain, every blow for everything I have had to suffer”.
“My life plan is to live. I want to be pastry chef, I want to live, I want to recover all the years I have lost.”
“Just call me Zunduri, its Japanesse. A friend of mine is named like that. It means beautiful girl”.
Shocked detectives arrested five people, Jose de Jesus Sanchez Vera, Leticia Molina Ochoa , her sister Fani Molina Ochoa, and Ivette and her sister Jannet Hernandez Molina.
The incident, which has stunned ordinary people , happened in Mexico City, in the Mexican capital.
Doctors say Zunduri, who has anemia, was tortured and she has a body more like an old age pensioner.
She told police she got so hungry she would eat the polythene packaging on the garments she had pressed.
If she stopped work for a rest she was beaten with a wrench, a tie and other instruments causing her multiple wounds. Her back was also burned with an iron.
Police said that when Zunduri started with the family they gave her a room and paid her but when she was accused of stealing things in the house, they stopped paying, chained her up and beat her constantly.
She finally managed to escape when the family did not chain her up properly and she fled the dry cleaning premises.
The owners of the business could face up to 40 years in prison.
Slavery and abduction are no strangers to Mexico. In fact, the Global Slavery Index indicates that there are 266,900 people working as if they were owned by a master in Mexico.
This is a greater number than in the whole of Afghanistan, North Korea and Serbia combined.
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A 22-year-old woman who was chained at the neck to a desk and kept as a slave for more than two years has escaped.
Beaten and abused Zunduri was forced to iron clothes for 12 hours a day and allowed one meal by her brutal captors.
Her neck is scarred and she has cuts and bruises all over her body where she was punished by the family holding her captive.
Zunduri who is now recovering from her ordeal in hospital said:” I was tortured. There is no part on my body without scars.”
“I want them to pay for every tear, every pain, every blow for everything I have had to suffer”.
“My life plan is to live. I want to be pastry chef, I want to live, I want to recover all the years I have lost.”
“Just call me Zunduri, its Japanesse. A friend of mine is named like that. It means beautiful girl”.
Shocked detectives arrested five people, Jose de Jesus Sanchez Vera, Leticia Molina Ochoa , her sister Fani Molina Ochoa, and Ivette and her sister Jannet Hernandez Molina.
The incident, which has stunned ordinary people , happened in Mexico City, in the Mexican capital.
Doctors say Zunduri, who has anemia, was tortured and she has a body more like an old age pensioner.
She told police she got so hungry she would eat the polythene packaging on the garments she had pressed.
If she stopped work for a rest she was beaten with a wrench, a tie and other instruments causing her multiple wounds. Her back was also burned with an iron.
Police said that when Zunduri started with the family they gave her a room and paid her but when she was accused of stealing things in the house, they stopped paying, chained her up and beat her constantly.
She finally managed to escape when the family did not chain her up properly and she fled the dry cleaning premises.
The owners of the business could face up to 40 years in prison.
Slavery and abduction are no strangers to Mexico. In fact, the Global Slavery Index indicates that there are 266,900 people working as if they were owned by a master in Mexico.
This is a greater number than in the whole of Afghanistan, North Korea and Serbia combined.
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