Jehovah’s Witnesses saved woman from ‘domestic slavery’

A victim of domestic labour exploitation had told her story to Jehovah’s Witnesses who came to the door of her employer, eventually triggering her release, a conference on human trafficking heard yesterday.

Tina Dia, a Nigerian who first came to Ireland to work as a 17-year-old, said she lived for almost four years as a virtual prisoner before orchestrating her release.

Now 24, she came to Ireland to work with an African family based in Dublin, where she was not paid a wage, worked every day, and did not receive any holidays.