In an interview with mailonline, the woman said she was held hostage and forced to work for 17 hours a day tied to a tight metal chain around her neck. She said she was left with no food for five days and got so hungry she ate polythene wrapping from the clothes she was forced to iron. When thirsty, she also revealed bit her mouth trying to drink steam from an iron.
Zunduri also said how a three metre chain was tied around her neck and she was forced to go to the toilet in a plastic carrier bag. She even had to sleep standing up and leaning against a wall because the chain she was attached to was too short for her to lie down.
Recalling her ordeal, she stated that she started working at the dry cleaners in Mexico five years ago and it was a live in job in which she was given a room and received low salary. Three years later, the story changed as she was accused by the dry cleaner owner Leticia Molina Ochoa of burning clothes. She threatened Zurundi that she will go to the police and accuse her of stealing if she didn't stay and repay her debt.
Zurundi who may never recover from the physical and emotional scars told police Ochoa and her family dug their nails into her skin, the iron tools at her and burned her with Iron. They even told her family when they came looking for her that she left the house and she is now a prostitute.
She finally escaped on April 25 when one of Ochoa's daughter didn't replace her chains properly after she was allowed to go to the toilet.
Ochoa however faces 50 years in jail for cruelty.
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This is evil. They should rot in jail
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