A Nanny Was Allegedly Beaten and Starved by Her Employer in Minnesota

The victim told police she had worked for a wealthy family in Shanghai as a nanny for their minor daughter.

The Minnesota woman, of Woodbury, is charged in Washington County with five felony counts, including labor trafficking, false imprisonment, and assault.

Washington County says the victim was found wandering the streets in the middle of the night. Doctors concluded that the Chinese woman had many broken ribs, a broken sternum, and numerous bruises on her body, The Inquisitr reports.

The woman was provided a room and $890 per month to care for Huang’s children after moving from China, the attorney’s office said.

However, the news release states that she was forced to work up to 18 hours a day – cooking, cleaning and caring for children – and was not let out of the home. The woman told the police in the complaint that she had been beaten, starved and threatened with death by her employer.

Then on July 13, the victim says she accidentally spilled some food and Huang came after her with a knife, threatening to kill her. She later told police she was searching for the airport so she could go home to China, the complaint said. Police calculate her pay at about $1.80 an hour.

Washington County Attorney Pete Orput states that “she was held in pretty appalling conditions, in appalling discipline”.

She was given crackers for meals and her weight had dropped from 54.5 kilograms when she arrived in the U.S. to under 40, the complaint said. She remains jailed in lieu of $350,000 bail, according to the Star Tribune.

Huang also abused the nanny routinely.

The abuse apparently escalated this month: On July 4, Huang allegedly grabbed the nanny’s hair and smashed her head on a table and other objects.

“During the time in the home she was physically assaulted by defendant, often times in front of the children”, Orput, the county prosecutor, said in a statement.

When she asked Huang’s husband to assist her in buying an airline ticket, he allegedly took her passport from her and said ‘she was not going anywhere’.

On July 10th, she was so badly beaten that she was forced to walk on her hands and knees like a dog for four hours, according to the Woodbury Bulletin. That meant she was working for less than $2 an hour, according to the complaint.

Police from four cities and agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security searched Huang’s home and arrested her, the complaint said. However, it is here, it is being committed by some of our citizens, and it amounts to nothing less than slavery in the 21st century.