RIO DE JANEIRO, July 7 — The discovery of a domestic worker kept as a slave in a mansion in a wealthy part of Sao Paulo for years has shocked Brazil, with labour prosecutors seeking a large one million real (RM806,170) in damages as the case moved to court. The 61-year-old woman rescued by labour...
Tuesday, 07 Jul 2020 08:13 AM MYT
The 61-year-old woman rescued by labour authorities last month worked for the same family since 1998, and was found living in a storage shed outside the mansion. Labor authorities asked for the name of the Brazilian woman to not be shared. “What is astonishing is that even after more than 20 years of work, the defendants developed no empathy ,” labor prosecutor Alline Pedrosa Oishi Delena and federal public defender Joao Paulo Dorini said in a statement.
In their opening statement, Delena and Dorini made a case for one million real in damages — described as an unusually large amount for a single rescued worker — citing the degrading conditions the woman was subjected to.
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