Celebrating Freedom: Justice Finally Achieved for Victims of Human Trafficking in American-Samoa

i haven't had a chance to read this article completely yet as it's rather long, but i wanted to post it before i forget. in short, it's a heart wrenching story about 300 young women that were enslaved by a Korean garment factory owner in american samoa, Kil Soo Lee, and, a reporter's efforts in freeing these women.

here's an excerpt:

"...a stunning Vietnamese woman from Northern Vietnam who’d just been taken out of American Samoa through the help of a Baptist church in Hawaii. Truong Thi Le Quyen -- later she called herself Quyen Truong -- was just 21 years old at the time, yet, as I would come to learn, she’d already experienced great hardship and tragedy. The most obvious physical affliction of the emotional, physical and mental agony was easy to see. Her eye, covered with a large white bandage, had been poked out with a stick by a guard after Kil Soo Lee had marked Quyen as a 'troublemaker' in the factory because she dared to complain about the conditions and lack of food. "