Child maids now being exported to US

Shyima Hall, 19, discusses her domestic enslavement Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, in Beaumont, Calif. Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in Northern Egypt to work in their California home. She awoke before dawn and often worked past midnight to iron their clothes, mop the marble floors and dust the family's crystal. She earned $45 a month working up to 20 hours a day. The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the United States is an extension of an illegal but common practice among the upper class in Africa.

Child maids now being exported to US

The windowless garage where Shyima Hall, 19, lived while forced to work as an unpaid maid is shown on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, in Irvine, Calif. Hall worked as a servant for a wealthy Egyptian couple and was eventually taken by them to California, where she worked 20 hour days inside their posh home. She awoke before dawn and often worked past midnight to iron their clothes, mop the marble floors and dust the family's crystal. She earned $45 a month working up to 20 hours a day. The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the United States is an extension of an illegal but common practice among the upper class in Africa.

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Maid testifies about Jackson entry alarm

Maid testifies about Jackson entry alarm

Michael Jackson waves to fans as he arrives to the courthouse in Santa Maria, Calif., Monday.

Raisin girl gets a digital, talking update

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France IMF Head Assault

A woman picks up a copy of a newspaper headlining on IMF head arrest at a news stand in Paris, Tuesday May, 17, 2011. International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused Monday of a pattern of sexual misconduct that began years before he was charged with a weekend attack on a maid in a New York hotel room. Headline of Le Parisien reqds: standing KO. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, head of the International Monetary Fund, is arraigned Monday, May 16, 2011, in Manhattan Criminal Court for the alleged attack on a maid who went into his penthouse suite at a hotel near Times Square to clean it, in New York. Strauss-Kahn must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges, a judge said Monday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, Pool)

Cartoonist Ted Key, creator of `Hazel' comic, dies at 95

In this undated photo provided by the Key family, Cartoonist Ted Key, whose comic strip "Hazel" about a bossy maid went from magazine page to TV screen, has died. He was 95. Key died Saturday, May 3, 2008 at his home in the Philadelphia suburb of Tredyffrin Township after a 1½-year battle with cancer, his son Peter Key said Monday.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

FILE - In this April 15, 2011, file photo International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn attends the IMF/World Bank spring meetings in Washington. Strauss-Kahn, 62, seen as the strongest potential challenger to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2012 presidential elections, was pulled off a plane bound for Paris at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport Saturday May 14, 2011, and subsequently arrested in connection with the violent sexual assault of a New York hotel maid. Political rivals expressed shock at his arrest. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Mystery `Eleanor Rigby' document goes to auction

Annie Mawson, Founder and Chief Executive of Sunbeams Music Trust charity, poses with a page from a 1911 Corporation of Liverpool accounts book with an entry for Eleanor Rigby, a scullery maid, in London, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2008. The only known documentation of Eleanor Rigby, sent to the Sunbeams Trust charity without explanation by Beatles member Paul McCartney, and said to be the inspiration behind one of their most-loved songs, is to be auctioned by The Fame Bureau, with an estimated price of GBP500,000 (USD758,000; euro 586,000).