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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. ....
San francisco area. but kourgt to a 2004 report from the u.s. department of justice, an estimated 14 to 17,000 people are trafficked in to the united states every year. making the crime as prevalent as homicide. put to work in popular restaurants, major hotel chains and factories. these silent victims says lu are the human cost of the prices customers pay for food and services in big cities like san francisco. we have seen anyone as young as 7 and anyone as old as 75 years old, men and women. we have also seen sex trafficking cases, but also a lot of labor cases involving domestic servitude, hotel and restaurant work. reporter: lu says when they are wealthy foreigners or diplomates they have little incentive to respect u.s. laws. exhausted and alone after two years lily worked up the nerve ....
Lil ie s life. she worked for 18 hours of work, seven days a week. no holidays, no days off. no ability to go anywhere, visit her parents, nothing. and then after a while she told me she was never paid and i thought what a strange thing. reporter: for many, it s hard to understand why lily didn t run away but sun di lu says it is important to see the situation from lily s perspective. the beginning it doesn t register it is fishy. they think this is normal. this is what s expected. reporter: lily had a good experience working as an international nanny. at 15 she left indonesia to live and work for a diplomate in saudi arabia. the family treated her well, paying for her vacation time, taking her with them to europe and teaching her arabic and french. when she receive an offer to work for another diplomate she leaped at the chance. ....