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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (100463)	6/11/2004 11:19:11 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 132070

la dolce vita Students' ex-slaves speak out By J.M. Lawrence Friday, June 11, 2004 A Brookline nanny who sued her employers for false imprisonment is one of several modern-day slaves kept by wealthy foreign students in Boston, the American Anti-Slavery group said yesterday. The group's president, Dr. Charles Jacobs, said Naseem Mohammed Siraj of India is the second indentured servant liberated from Boston University students while a Bangladeshi woman escaped recently from a Saudi sheik visiting Harvard. ``They need to add to the student code provisions not to bring their slaves,'' Jacobs said yesterday. He urged those servants to call his organization in Boston for help. The Justice Department estimates 20,000 people are trafficked into the United States every year for domestic slavery and prostitution. Siraj, 35, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday before accepting an out-of-court settlement of less than $10,000 from her former employer, Dr. Tahira Juma. ``My wish for those who suffer as I did is that they know that there are people who want to help them,'' Siraj said in Hindi through a translator at her lawyer's office. Siraj was forced to come to America a year ago or be stranded in Oman. She will return to India today to be reunited with her husband and three children, whom she has not seen in two years. She believed police would arrest her if she ventured out alone in Boston and was forced to care for four children for $3 a day with no breaks and little food, her suit said. A neighbor helped her escape earlier this year. A slave from Sri Lanka, Vasantha Gedara, was held in servitude by a Kuwait student studying at BU, according to Jacobs. She was liberated from a Quincy home several years ago with the help of a nurse and local police, he said.