Lower Mainland: Ordeals

Vancouver Area Dept: One of the women, who worked as a nanny and housekeeper, said she still feared her employers and spoke to News only on the condition that her identity was not revealed, according to CBC. Both workers ended up at the same Vancouver-area women's transition house, recovering from their ordeals and looking for new work and two immigrant women employed as live-in domestic help in separate homes in B.C. s Lower Mainland say they were treated like slaves by their employers and held as virtual captives in their jobs. The other woman, Lynn Jose, was a caregiver for an elderly man with Parkinson s disease. 'She went towards me, scratching me on my shoulders then she punched me.' Lynn Jose (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.