A husband and wife in Redwood City are facing human trafficking charges relating to their alleged treatment of a nanny they hired from China.
Qi Li, 35, and his wife Jie Xu, 37, both face felony human trafficking charges in San Mateo County, and they were expected to appear in court for an arraignment Wednesday, as KRON4 reports. The charges stem from their alleged mistreatment of an unnamed 53-year-old woman who came to work for them last summer from China.
According to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, the woman had only met with Li and Xu by video before coming to the US to work as a nanny for their nine-month-old baby. She had gotten the job through an employment agency in China. When she arrived in June 2024, the woman said that she “was told she had to also do all the housework, the laundry and hold the baby while the baby napped,” per the DA’s office. And, “The defendants made her work seven days a week for up to 20 hours a day.”…