Tuesday, 7. September 2004
Topic: NEWS english - on September 7, 2004 at 9:13:00 AM CEST
Sony Pictures vice president of legal affairs convicted of slavery
A Filipina who won $825,000 (U.S.) in a lawsuit claiming a Hollywood executive and his wife enslaved her called yesterday for an end to human trafficking.
“Slavery still exists, and I want to tell victims they should not tolerate it and should not be afraid to seek help,” Nena Ruiz said at a news conference.
Ruiz, 60 is a former schoolteacher from the Philippines who worked as a domestic servant for James Jackson and his wife, Elizabeth.
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