obedient lily of slirk shirking her duties. i cleaned the car inside and outside and she said why don t you clean the car. every day you have to clean the car. i was really, really mad. i went to the bathroom and stayed there and said i cannot do it again. if i see heidi i will pack my stuff and leave. someone knocked at the door. i opened the door and this was lily. i was crying. i said, please help me. so i took her in. alarmed heidi hid lily in the back of her car under a blanket and took her to the local police. the police directed her to the fbi where lily was identified as a victim of human trafficking. when lily s employer went to police asking them to find her, they refused saying she left voluntarily. panicked about bpg exposed they pressured the indonesian embassy to get lily out of the sglus the diplomate had run to the
no one should tolerate anybody being used as a sex slave. i will say it to people listening out there that human trafficking is real, and all they need to do is just take one step back. and ask themselves, would they want their daughters to be in that kind of situation? and those that have the ability to stop this should do everything they can. for now, the problem of human trafficking in america is a growing one, and the battlefield nationwide involving tens of thousands of victims. many scarred for life. some lost, others dead. each day, law enforcement is winning small victories, closing down the sunflower massage parlor, and the legal battle to win lily s freedom from human servitude. it is victories like these that will help win the war against human trafficking.
today lily is in the u.s. on a legal visa and works as a nanny in san francisco. my life now is very happy and i have my baby and my husband is also here. so, it s now it s really happy that my life is really changed. it is not forever. four years. while lily s story of modern-day slavery was resolved happily, she says that she represents a tien fi fraction of those who suffered. lu says for every lily there are hundreds of workers trapped in servitude and sex slavery in the u.s. who aren t empowered enough to run and seek help. a big problem for a lot of clients, if you are in a country where you feel the laws aren t going to text you will never feel safe. inspections, please open the door. coming up, san francisco s health department cracks down on human trafficking in the city by the bay.
you are under arrest for prostitution. we have seen anyone as young as 7 or as old as 75 years old. relying on the kind canness of strangers to free them from captivity. this is something i would never expect here. open the door. sheriffs office. open the door. while devoted public servants do their best to fight those who prey on the vulnerable. it is nothing but modern day slavery. msnbc presents trafficked, slavery in america. it is a growing menace
there. it s actually a lamborghini on loan from a wealthy san francisco resident. again, everybody in the city pitched in to make this little boy s dream come true. now, i want to bring in dan simon, tracking the story live in gotham city. i m surprised he doesn t have a batman suit on, first of all. so how did this adventure come about? reporter: well, hi, rosa. first of all, you can see the batmobile behind me. you can see the thousands of people who have converged on gotham city here in downtown san francisco. we ve all covered lots of stories, but i have to tell you, and i promise you this, i have never seen anything quite like this. the amount of logistics and coordination to make this little boy s dreams come true is unbelievably staggering. so here s how this came about. he s 5 years old, little miles. he had leukemia. fortunately, it s now in remission. he was asked if he could have