I was trafficked when I was eight months pregnant. They tricked me and told me that I should go to China to buy many things. After a while a car came and took us for a ride and I had no way to get off. I was very scared. I heard them talk on their phone. They said they could sell a baby boy for seventy thousand yuan. They sold me and my unborn baby for fifty thousand yuan each.
What scared me was that if I was caught they would beat the hell out of me. I was so scared for me and my baby but I knew I had to save both our lives.
After I gave birth to my baby we were locked in a room for about 10 – 20 days. One day, I stole their key left in the bathroom and made an escape. I was scared to be caught. So I ran in an office near there and asked the staff to call the police. I kept pointing to a star to show that I was Vietnamese. So they called Vietnamese policeman to bring me home.
It’s good to be here [the shelter]. I have soup and milk to eat, and enough milk for my baby.
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