30 Years as a Slave
This article talks about Guadalupe Pérez Castillo, a woman who is beginning to learn to live in freedom now, at the age of 43 after 30 years of captivity, working as a slave. Her story began in Las Agujas, a small town in Mexico where she sold fruit at the age of 10 to help her poor family. One day, a woman came to Pérez's family looking for a babysitter for her children, in exchange, she would pay Guadalupe and her mother agreed but the girl wanted to study and to have a career. When she arrived at the woman's home, she was forced to do all the houseworks but she didn't get paid and there wasn't a bed for her; she also tried to escape several times but she just could speak her town's dialect so she always came back. She also was molested and beaten by the lady's husband and they threatened to kill her. They stole 30 years of her life from her. Now, the woman has been in therapy for some time.
