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Franco Orr: Human Trafficking

human trafficking: Franco Orr and his wife Nicole Huen were both charged with human trafficking of their nanny Leticia Sarmiento, according to CBC. When their high-profile trial wrapped up last month Orr was convicted, but his wife was acquitted and A Vancouver man convicted of human trafficking his Filipina nanny may not have to pay her claim for $34,000 in backpay for unpaid overtime and other work. The couple had brought the live-in nanny with them when they moved to Canada from Hong Kong in 2008, and Sarmiento cared for the family's three children until she called the police in June 2010, claiming she was enslaved by the couple. Read more about the human trafficking Wife of B.C. man found guilty of enslaving nanny speaks out (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.