Mcfucking EXCUSE ME
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So to be pedantic (because that matters with legal cases) she is not suing him for human trafficking. She is suing him for intensely abusive employment conditions, including underpayment, overwork, harassment during attempts to take breaks or leave the city, psychological torment, and housing conditions which conspired to keep her from leaving, which can very reasonably be said to constitute a degree of human trafficking. But the suit is not specifically pressing trafficking charges.
That said the degree of racist and sexual harassment alleged (from his mom) is horrifying and deserves specific attention.
Actually, I think this is worth emphasizing. While human trafficking charges are not being filed, the allegations absolutely represent a pattern of human trafficking control. Sleep and food deprivation, constant surveillance, economic deprivation, housing control, continuous harassment, all of these are behaviors desgined to keep someone burned out and with no time to make moves to get themself out.
Someone living in a city they're unfamiliar with, with San Francisco's housing market, no time to establish connections with locals, withheld wages and illegal lies about what wages would be coming, who is constantly sleep deprived and hungry, and harassed constantly by their captor who reacts with extreme measures to moves which might let them leave (like taking a trip out of the city), is how not in a position to leave their job. Pedantry is important in legal matters, but we can recognize when something is absolutely being described in allegations and not on a list of charges only for practical reasons of ease of prosecution.
^^^ important additions. This is what human trafficking looks like a lot of the time. I think we have a cultural idea that human trafficking looks like the movie Taken, but in reality it’s mostly fraudulently promising employment to someone if they move across a border (ANY border: country/city/state etc) and then intentionally making it extremely difficult to leave. Not just by force, but the methods used above.
The additional reblogs are very useful, important to keep in mind when you see statistics or news about human trafficking that it looks like this. Human trafficking isn’t just keeping people locked in basements, if you’re an American in a populous place you have most likely interacted someone who was actively being trafficked
Update: The cases ended up being settled out of court.


























