3 Disturbing TRUE Au Pair Horror Stories — Transcript

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1. 0:10[Music]
2. 0:11when I first came to the United States I
3. 0:13was 20 years old and working as an aair
4. 0:16I didn't have much experience but I was
5. 0:18eager also very nervous I grown up in a
6. 0:22small town in France and hadn't ever
7. 0:24spent time away from home let alone
8. 0:26across an ocean my English still needed
9. 0:29work but I was confident enough to get
10. 0:31by I expected it to be a good year a new
11. 0:34adventure a cultural exchange something
12. 0:37I'd tell my friends about when I went
13. 0:38home I was matched with the Joseph
14. 0:41family I don't want to name the exact
15. 0:43town for privacy reasons but it was an
16. 0:45upper middle class neighborhood quiet
17. 0:47streets nice houses big backyards the
18. 0:50kind of place you'd expect to find well
19. 0:52behaved kids PTA moms and dads who
20. 0:54worked non-stop I remember being so
21. 0:57relieved when I first arrived I thought
22. 0:59that would be easy nothing bad happens
23. 1:02in places like this the Josephs had two
24. 1:04boys Brock and Brandon Brock the older
25. 1:08one was 12 he was a pretty typical kid
26. 1:11kind of lazy sometimes rude but harmless
27. 1:14overall he made jokes liked his Xbox and
28. 1:17mostly stayed out of trouble Brandon
29. 1:19though was different he was nine and
30. 1:22already had this coldness to him I don't
31. 1:25know how else to describe it there was
32. 1:27something off I think it's likely he had
33. 1:29some some kind of social disorder when I
34. 1:32first met him he just stared at me
35. 1:33without saying a word not shy or
36. 1:36embarrassed just staring like he was
37. 1:38studying me after a few seconds he
38. 1:42smiled and asked are you the maid I
39. 1:44laughed awkwardly and said I was going
40. 1:45to help look after him and his brother
41. 1:47for the year he didn't laugh with me he
42. 1:50just kept watching it didn't take long
43. 1:52to realize Brandon wasn't like the other
44. 1:54kids my host parents warned me that he
45. 1:57was difficult they said he had a bit of
46. 1:59an attitude but that was the
47. 2:01understatement of the century Brandon
48. 2:04didn't just have an attitude he was mean
49. 2:06and I don't mean the usual bratty stuff
50. 2:08like teasing his brother or refusing to
51. 2:10eat what he was served it was worse than
52. 2:12that he lied constantly about everything
53. 2:16he once told his teacher that Brock
54. 2:18tried to choke him in the kitchen which
55. 2:20never happened he told the neighbor that
56. 2:22his parents locked him in a closet at
57. 2:23night he even told me that the last awe
58. 2:26pair ran away because of him and that
59. 2:28she was never seen again
60. 2:30when I tried to scold him for it he
61. 2:32narrowed his eyes and said don't tell me
62. 2:34what to do everything was manageable for
63. 2:37me even at that point but I do admit
64. 2:39that I was a little frightened of him
65. 2:42things only got worse from there one
66. 2:44night about 2 months in I pulled back my
67. 2:47sheets and
68. 2:48froze there were thumbtacks scattered
69. 2:51all over my mattress I just stared for a
70. 2:54second dozens maybe a hundred of them
71. 2:57were pointing upwards waiting for me to
72. 2:59lie down
73. 3:00my heart started racing the mattress
74. 3:02cover had tiny punctures everywhere I
75. 3:05stood there in fear realizing how close
76. 3:07I'd come to lying on them Brandon had
77. 3:10been spying on me earlier that day I'd
78. 3:12caught him peeking through a crack in
79. 3:13the door when I was folding clothes I
80. 3:16didn't think much of it at the time just
81. 3:17assumed he was being nosy but after
82. 3:20seeing all those thumbtacks I wasn't so
83. 3:22sure I was honestly so scared I didn't
84. 3:25want to tell his parents afraid that
85. 3:26they'd send me back to France so I
86. 3:28cleaned up the mess and kept it to
87. 3:30myself after that things became more and
88. 3:33more strange Brandon started following
89. 3:36me around the house I'd catch him
90. 3:38peeking around corners watching me from
91. 3:40the
92. 3:41doorways sometimes when I was cooking or
93. 3:43reading I look up to find him sitting
94. 3:45across the room staring without blinking
95. 3:48I never said anything I must admit I
96. 3:51tried to avoid him as much as I could
97. 3:53out of fear one afternoon I was watering
98. 3:56flowers in the garden when I smelled
99. 3:58something off
100. 4:00a sharp sour odor like something rotting
101. 4:04I traced it to a corner of the yard
102. 4:05where the soil looked freshly Disturbed
103. 4:08I was curious so I grabbed one of those
104. 4:10little garden shovels and started poking
105. 4:12at the soil when I saw what was there I
106. 4:15nearly screamed there were three Dead
107. 4:17Rabbits buried there their bodies were
108. 4:20twisted and cut in several places one
109. 4:23had its legs tied together with string I
110. 4:26ran inside to tell my host parents Mr
111. 4:29and Mrs Jo Joseph looked concerned at
112. 4:30first until they pulled Brendan aside to
113. 4:33ask him about it he gave an innocent
114. 4:35look and said it wasn't him that was it
115. 4:38they believed him Mrs Joseph said it was
116. 4:41probably one of the neighborhood kids
117. 4:42and told Brandon to go back inside I
118. 4:45started sleeping with my bedroom door
119. 4:47locked after that a week later I woke up
120. 4:50in the middle of the night to a noise in
121. 4:51my
122. 4:52room I opened my eyes and saw a shadow
123. 4:55near my bed it was Brandon he was
124. 4:58standing there holding something
125. 5:00I blinked a few times and realized what
126. 5:02it was a kitchen knife I screamed as
127. 5:06loud as I could by the time the parents
128. 5:08came rushing in the knife was gone
129. 5:11Brandon had shoved it under the bed he
130. 5:13convinced them that he'd been
131. 5:15sleepwalking Mrs Joseph gave me an
132. 5:17annoyed look as if to say why are you
133. 5:19making such a fuss I pointed to the
134. 5:22knife handle sticking out from under the
135. 5:24bed and pleaded with them to believe me
136. 5:26Mr Joseph knelt down pulled it out and
137. 5:29showed it to Brandon he just smiled and
138. 5:31said he had never seen it before and
139. 5:33they of course believed him I told them
140. 5:36that my door had been locked so he must
141. 5:38have picked it but they told me that was
142. 5:40nonsense I felt so alone I had no one I
143. 5:44didn't know what to do for better or
144. 5:47worse a decision was made for me the
145. 5:50next morning Mrs Joseph called me to the
146. 5:52living room and said I had stolen her
147. 5:54jewelry I was completely confused until
148. 5:57she held up a pearl necklace I had never
149. 5:59seen before for she told me she had
150. 6:01found it in my purse which she was
151. 6:03holding in her other hand I begged her
152. 6:05to believe me that I hadn't stolen it
153. 6:08but there was nothing I could say to
154. 6:09convince her Brandon stood in the
155. 6:11hallway smiling to himself I knew it was
156. 6:14him they fired me on the spot I flew
157. 6:18back to France the next day I couldn't
158. 6:21believe how easily Brandon had destroyed
159. 6:22my life for months afterwards I was
160. 6:25extremely depressed I thought I had
161. 6:27blown my one chance at living in the US
162. 6:29and feared I wouldn't get another one
163. 6:32fortunately I found my way back to the
164. 6:33state several years later and still live
165. 6:35here I have a good job and good friends
166. 6:39I still think about Brandon from time to
167. 6:40time I can only imagine the evil person
168. 6:43he's grown up to
169. 6:47[Music]
170. 6:53become for most people traveling alone
171. 6:56is terrifying and understandably so for
172. 6:59some reason it's never bothered me all
173. 7:01that much I've always been quite
174. 7:02independent and outgoing so befriending
175. 7:04new people comes naturally to me it's
176. 7:07probably one of the reasons I decided to
177. 7:09become an a pair also I've always wanted
178. 7:11to become a child psychologist in my
179. 7:14opinion one of the world's problems
180. 7:16could be solved if children had better
181. 7:17parenting and proper guidance beyond
182. 7:20that I've always wanted to experience
183. 7:22America so working as an all pair was
184. 7:24something I seriously considered I'm
185. 7:26originally from Germany from a tiny
186. 7:28village outside alone most Americans
187. 7:31have never heard of it so when people
188. 7:32ask where I'm from I usually just say
189. 7:34Germany it's easier that way before you
190. 7:37say anything I believe that my English
191. 7:39is rather good or so I'm told it's
192. 7:42gotten considerably better since living
193. 7:44in the US and people are often impressed
194. 7:46by it my father is originally from the
195. 7:48UK and did everything in his power to
196. 7:50ensure that my English was as good as my
197. 7:52German if not better I'm not sure if
198. 7:55they have them here in the US but I had
199. 7:57an electronic dictionary growing up that
200. 7:58doubled as a translator I remember
201. 8:01messing around with it a ton as a kid
202. 8:03plugging in words and translating them
203. 8:05with my dad I also read like crazy when
204. 8:08I was younger which I think definitely
205. 8:09helped me anyway my host family lives in
206. 8:12a wealthy suburb in Northern California
207. 8:15their house is unbelievable you might
208. 8:17think living here would be lonely but
209. 8:19the agency does a great job of
210. 8:21connecting nearby all pairs so I
211. 8:23immediately clicked with a few girls in
212. 8:24the surrounding neighborhoods my best
213. 8:27friend here is an American girl named
214. 8:28Jennifer she's great she's like me but a
215. 8:31little louder and a little taller we've
216. 8:34been Inseparable since we met we're both
217. 8:36here for the same reasons working
218. 8:38exploring and trying to make the most of
219. 8:40our time abroad there's a huge college
220. 8:43campus nearby and it's pretty much the
221. 8:45only decent place to go out that isn't a
222. 8:46$100 Uber away both the Frat and bar
223. 8:50scenes there are pretty good so that's
224. 8:51where we spend most of our weekends I
225. 8:54think a lot of the guys are naturally
226. 8:55drawn to us because of our accents and
227. 8:57the international card gets us pretty
228. 8:59far it's supposedly difficult to get
229. 9:01into fra parties without being in a
230. 9:03sorority here but we don't have much of
231. 9:05an issue the bars here are a lot more
232. 9:08fun though our favorite spot is this bar
233. 9:10called tap I've noticed Americans love
234. 9:13giving their nights themes Taco Tuesday
235. 9:16wine Wednesday I guess any excuse to
236. 9:19drink on a weekday you know it's kind of
237. 9:21funny Tuesdays are the most enjoyable
238. 9:23nights of the week for Jenny and I this
239. 9:25story takes place on one of those nights
240. 9:28about a few months after after I arrived
241. 9:29to the US I was standing by the bar
242. 9:32waiting on drinks for Jenny and I when
243. 9:34this tall guy with Carly brown hair
244. 9:36approached me and said you're German
245. 9:38right that kind of threw me off people
246. 9:40almost never guess I'm German European
247. 9:43sure but not German
248. 9:44specifically I don't really have
249. 9:46distinctive German features so anytime
250. 9:49anyone's able to guess my nationality it
251. 9:51fascinates me I laughed and told them he
252. 9:53was right and he introduced himself as
253. 9:55sebie with a confident smile we talked
254. 9:58for a while and and everything was very
255. 10:00natural I'll admit I get approached a
256. 10:02lot when I go out I'm in shape and I
257. 10:05know I'm decent looking but guys are
258. 10:06usually kind of obvious and cheesy when
259. 10:08they talk to me sebbi felt different the
260. 10:12more we talked the more it seemed like
261. 10:14he was actually interested in me as a
262. 10:15person as opposed to just hitting on me
263. 10:18he knew a lot of tidbits about German
264. 10:19culture which was something I quite
265. 10:21liked about him a lot of the Americans I
266. 10:23don't talk to don't know much about the
267. 10:25rest of the world so it was nice to talk
268. 10:27to someone well-traveled smart and
269. 10:29cultured we talked and left for a while
270. 10:32longer before I introduced him to Jenny
271. 10:34he smiled and waved his friend over an
272. 10:36Asian guy who introduced himself as
273. 10:38Hunter he and Jenny immediately headed
274. 10:40off all in all it was a great time
275. 10:44before the night ended sebie asked me
276. 10:46for my number and I gave it to him
277. 10:47without
278. 10:48hesitation a few days later sebie
279. 10:51invited me over for dinner when I got to
280. 10:53his place I expected him to have dinner
281. 10:55reservations ready or something but
282. 10:57instead he was cooking a pie a dish for
283. 10:59us in the kitchen it was quite sweet I
284. 11:03ended up helping him prepare the meal
285. 11:05and he opened a bottle of wine for us I
286. 11:07had such a great time that I ended up
287. 11:09sleeping over at his apartment the next
288. 11:11morning I woke up and examined his room
289. 11:14a little unlike most college Apartments
290. 11:17it was quite clean he didn't have any
291. 11:19posters or typical decorations up but
292. 11:21rather a bunch of landscape pictures his
293. 11:24walls were covered with dozens of square
294. 11:26photographs all black and white cast C
295. 11:29Les cities Countryside views they all
296. 11:32looked oddly familiar I got up and
297. 11:34looked at them a little more closely
298. 11:36realizing they all had locations printed
299. 11:38on them they were all from Germany every
300. 11:41single one with the exception of a
301. 11:43picture of Monte Carlo Monaco sebie had
302. 11:46woken up by then so I turned and asked
303. 11:48him jokingly if he had a thing for
304. 11:49German architecture he laughed and told
305. 11:52me about his dad's Arial Photo
306. 11:53collection which he had picked some of
307. 11:55his favorites from I walked back towards
308. 11:58his bed and real realized there were
309. 11:59some more pictures above his bed my jaw
310. 12:02literally dropped when I saw that one of
311. 12:04the pictures was a landscape of my
312. 12:06Village taken from above the picture was
313. 12:09like 20 minutes from my house I told him
314. 12:11this and he got rather excited telling
315. 12:14me what a crazy coincidence that was I
316. 12:17was amazed the odds of that were so slim
317. 12:20he then asked me a bunch of questions
318. 12:21about my hometown which I was happy to
319. 12:23answer over the next few weeks sebie and
320. 12:26I spent a lot of time together I was
321. 12:28working and he had class during the week
322. 12:31but we spent every weekend going out
323. 12:32together plus
324. 12:34Tuesdays everything was great he was a
325. 12:36sweet guy and made sure I was
326. 12:38comfortable and enjoying myself when we
327. 12:39went out he was also quite nice to my
328. 12:42friends which I appreciated his friend
329. 12:44Hunter turned out to be a little weird
330. 12:46though every time someone would play
331. 12:48Take It Off by Fisher he would quite
332. 12:50literally start stripping in front of
333. 12:52Jenny one night sebie got rather drunk
334. 12:55significantly drunker than usual as he
335. 12:58was walking me to his apartment
336. 12:59he was going on and on about how much he
337. 13:01loved German women and how he always
338. 13:02wanted a German wife at one point he
339. 13:05said he always wanted to marry an all
340. 13:07pair because foreign girls are great
341. 13:09with kids I brushed it off as some weird
342. 13:12fantasy but that was the first thing he
343. 13:14did or said that didn't sit well with me
344. 13:17obviously not a deal breaker though he
345. 13:18had been perfect up until then but then
346. 13:21came the first time he took me out to
347. 13:22dinner he took me to this Italian spot
348. 13:25and told me he'd picked it because they
349. 13:26had plenty of vegetarian options which
350. 13:29was sweet but I never told him I was
351. 13:31vegetarian I gave him a little smile and
352. 13:33playfully asked him how he knew I was
353. 13:35vegetarian and he told me he saw it in
354. 13:37one of my insta posts that eased me for
355. 13:40the rest of the dinner but later when I
356. 13:42was back home I realized my only post
357. 13:44mentioning it was from years ago and I
358. 13:46post a lot so you'd have to scroll
359. 13:48pretty far to get there let alone pick
360. 13:50up on the caption I had used and that's
361. 13:52not even mentioning the fact that all my
362. 13:54posts are from a long time ago in
363. 13:56Germany the next time I stayed over
364. 13:59while sebie was asleep I unlocked his
365. 14:01phone I remembered his password he
366. 14:03hadn't exactly been careful about hiding
367. 14:05it what I found in there was
368. 14:08sickening there was a folder in his
369. 14:10camera roll titled wife which contains
370. 14:13screenshots of my social media dating
371. 14:15back months posts captions tagged
372. 14:18locations even screenshots of old
373. 14:20stories I didn't even remember posting
374. 14:23his Notes app was even worse there were
375. 14:25English translations of my old posts in
376. 14:27there plus a rough schedule of when and
377. 14:29where I'd go out based on my Instagram
378. 14:31story posts there was information in
379. 14:34there about my hometown about Germany
380. 14:36about things I liked all based on my
381. 14:39Instagram if you could believe it but
382. 14:41the worst thing I found in its phone was
383. 14:43a photo of my driver's license
384. 14:46everything hit me at once the second
385. 14:48night I had gone out in America I had
386. 14:50lost my wallet at a frat party which had
387. 14:52my ID in it that's how we found my
388. 14:55Instagram that's how we knew everything
389. 14:57where I was from what I like liked my
390. 14:59birthday none of it was chance he had
391. 15:02planned all of it there was a long
392. 15:05graphic message that went into
393. 15:06disgusting detail about what he wanted
394. 15:08to do to me which I don't want to talk
395. 15:10about I didn't know who the guy in those
396. 15:12messages was I couldn't stand to look at
397. 15:14everything anymore so I grabbed my stuff
398. 15:16and slipped out of his apartment without
399. 15:18making a sound regrettably I didn't take
400. 15:21any photos for evidence the whole drive
401. 15:23back to my host family's house my hands
402. 15:25were shaking Germans take privacy
403. 15:28seriously
404. 15:29I felt sick my a pair profile was
405. 15:32private but my ID he had my full name
406. 15:36and with that I knew he could have found
407. 15:38anything I didn't sleep that night I
408. 15:41prayed that he hadn't been able to
409. 15:42figure out my host family's address the
410. 15:44next morning my phone exploded with
411. 15:47messages they were all from sebbi asking
412. 15:50me where I went why I left if I went
413. 15:52through his phone I sent him one final
414. 15:55message telling him that if he ever
415. 15:56tried to contact me again I'd call the
416. 15:58police
417. 15:59then I blocked him on everything for the
418. 16:02next few days I lived in Perpetual fear
419. 16:04worrying that he'd show up at any moment
420. 16:07I privated my Instagram locked
421. 16:09everything down and created a close
422. 16:11friend story for when I went out just in
423. 16:13case he tried to find me again
424. 16:15thankfully he hasn't shown up yet and
425. 16:17it's been about 3 months since I last
426. 16:19heard from him still though I can't help
427. 16:22but feeling this pit in my stomach that
428. 16:24he knows my host family's address and
429. 16:26that he's planning something I hope I
430. 16:28never see him again again but I'll
431. 16:29update if something else
432. 16:31happens update I hoped I wouldn't have
433. 16:34to do this but the past few weeks I
434. 16:36noticed the same silver car driving up
435. 16:38and down my host family Street sometimes
436. 16:41just sitting across the street from
437. 16:42their house he's also tried to reach out
438. 16:45to me through fake phone numbers and
439. 16:46Instagram accounts all within the same
440. 16:48time frame the messages always just ask
441. 16:51me to talk but I haven't responded to
442. 16:53any of them all this gives me reason to
443. 16:56believe he knows where I'm living and
444. 16:57that I'm potentially in danger
445. 16:59I'm building a case to present to the
446. 17:01police but I've heard that they don't
447. 17:02take this kind of thing very seriously
448. 17:05luckily my all pair commitment ends soon
449. 17:07so I'll be back in Germany soon
450. 17:15[Music]
451. 17:18enough this happened a few years ago
452. 17:21I've always wanted to live in Europe
453. 17:22ever since I was a kid it was my
454. 17:24lifelong dream more than anything though
455. 17:27I wanted to work with kids I've always
456. 17:29had a way with them and I knew ever
457. 17:31since I was little that I wouldn't be
458. 17:32fully content with my life if my job
459. 17:34didn't involve caring for or teaching
460. 17:36kids in some capacity so when I found
461. 17:38out I could become an a pair in France
462. 17:40where I could use my French from high
463. 17:42school and be part of a family it felt
464. 17:44like everything was falling into place
465. 17:46the decision wasn't easy I'm from Canada
466. 17:49and the move was a big one but France
467. 17:51had favorable Visa options for Canadians
468. 17:54and it was the perfect chance to improve
469. 17:55my French Canada's second language plus
470. 17:59I had a few friends in Paris so I
471. 18:01wouldn't be entirely alone there money
472. 18:04though was a problem I didn't have
473. 18:06family support I won't get into why
474. 18:08that's personal but let's just say I was
475. 18:10on my own I couldn't afford one of those
476. 18:13expensive agencies so I used a free aair
477. 18:16website instead not ideal but it was all
478. 18:18I could manage that's how I connected
479. 18:21with Leah Leah's Ed was warm and
480. 18:23straightforward she needed help with her
481. 18:25two kids while her husband traveled for
482. 18:27work she seemed wonderful very polite
483. 18:30and very friendly on our video calls she
484. 18:33was quick to call me Sheree and mael
485. 18:36which felt different from home but in a
486. 18:38Charming motherly way she asked a lot
487. 18:40about me how I was with kids how I felt
488. 18:43about family life but didn't talk much
489. 18:45about herself still she felt genuine I
490. 18:48trusted her the only thing that felt off
491. 18:51was the kids I asked to meet them on our
492. 18:53calls more than once Leah always had a
493. 18:56reason why they couldn't join one was n
494. 18:59the other was at school where they were
495. 19:00on a play date with a friend she
496. 19:03promised I'd meet them the second I
497. 19:04arrived it felt a little strange but I
498. 19:07figured I'd see them soon enough Leah
499. 19:09sent me a formal agreement everything
500. 19:12looked proper and we agreed on my start
501. 19:14date I booked my flight packed my life
502. 19:17into a suitcase and said goodbye to
503. 19:19Canada when I landed at Charles deal
504. 19:22Leah wasn't there that surprised me from
505. 19:25everything I had heard most host
506. 19:27families meet their all pairs at the
507. 19:28airport
508. 19:29but then my phone buzzed it was a
509. 19:31message from Leah telling me that she
510. 19:33was stuck in traffic and instructing me
511. 19:34to go to the side drop off area where
512. 19:36she'd have me picked up I remember using
513. 19:39Google translate on her message because
514. 19:40it sounded like she was going to have
515. 19:41someone else pick me up and I wanted to
516. 19:43double check I was right and that made
517. 19:46me confused and a little unsettled
518. 19:49despite that I followed her instructions
519. 19:52a few minutes later a car drove up and a
520. 19:54woman approached late 40s maybe with
521. 19:57short blonde hair and a bright smile she
522. 20:00looked nothing like Leah she introduced
523. 20:02herself as Leah's cousin and said you
524. 20:04must be Leah's air she sent me to get
525. 20:07you I hesitated something felt off
526. 20:10immediately I asked her if I could talk
527. 20:12to Leah and unlocked my phone she told
528. 20:15me that Leah was probably still driving
529. 20:17and assured me that she'd be waiting for
530. 20:19me at home I called Leah anyway and it
531. 20:22went straight to voicemail it didn't
532. 20:24even ring the woman kept telling me that
533. 20:26I'd be fine with a huge smile on her
534. 20:28face I was confused but also exhausted
535. 20:31from the flight and what was I supposed
536. 20:33to do stand there in the airport forever
537. 20:36so I did what she said and got in the
538. 20:38car the woman kept the conversation
539. 20:40going non-stop as we drove she asked
540. 20:43about my flight my life and Canada and
541. 20:45if I was excited to start my new job but
542. 20:48when I tried to steer the conversation
543. 20:49back to Leah or the children she brushed
544. 20:51it off just said that I'd love them and
545. 20:53that I'd see them soon I started to feel
546. 20:56worse and worse about the whole
547. 20:57situation she was too polished tooo
548. 21:00eager to keep me talking without
549. 21:02actually answering anything the scenery
550. 21:04outside began to change I had the
551. 21:06address in Google maps and the route we
552. 21:08were taking didn't match we were heading
553. 21:11away from the suburbs and into what
554. 21:12looked like an industrial type area I
555. 21:15started panicking I felt like I was in
556. 21:17the process of being abducted I asked
557. 21:19her directly where we were going and she
558. 21:21responded lightly calling it a shortcut
559. 21:24again repeating that Leah was expecting
560. 21:25us I felt the blood drain from my face
561. 21:29I knew at that point that she was lying
562. 21:31I told her to take me back to the
563. 21:33airport but she didn't answer I told her
564. 21:35I'd call the police if she didn't take
565. 21:37me back to the airport and she told me
566. 21:38to relax but I wasn't letting up no
567. 21:42matter what I said she just kept
568. 21:43repeating herself about Leah and
569. 21:45insisted that I was
570. 21:47overreacting the next time the car
571. 21:48slowed down I kicked the door open and
572. 21:51jumped out onto the street the woman
573. 21:53didn't drive off instead she kind of
574. 21:55just looked at me like I was the one who
575. 21:57was acting crazy
576. 21:59I called my mom who told me to get away
577. 22:01from the car get somewhere safe and call
578. 22:03for help as I was talking to my mom I
579. 22:06looked through the windshield and
580. 22:07noticed the woman now on her phone
581. 22:09speaking rapidly in a language I didn't
582. 22:11recognize it wasn't French and it
583. 22:13definitely wasn't English I couldn't
584. 22:15shake the gut feeling that she was
585. 22:17talking a Leah there wasn't another car
586. 22:19in sight but under no circumstance was I
587. 22:22getting back in that
588. 22:23vehicle eventually the driver's side
589. 22:25door opened and the woman took a step
590. 22:27towards me I screamed that I was on the
591. 22:29phone with the police and that actually
592. 22:31got her to stop without saying another
593. 22:34word she went back to the car threw my
594. 22:36suitcase onto the road and then sped off
595. 22:39I got the license plate as she drove
596. 22:40away but I was on the verge of tears
597. 22:42with my mom still on the phone I ended
598. 22:45up hitchhiking to one of my friend's
599. 22:46houses I honestly don't know what I
600. 22:48would have done without that option my
601. 22:51friend's family helped me report
602. 22:52everything to the police and eventually
603. 22:54even agreed to help me with the fair
604. 22:56back to Canada which I was beyond
605. 22:57grateful for
606. 22:59eventually they updated me on what the
607. 23:01police informed them apparently there
608. 23:03was no registered all pair family by
609. 23:05Leah's name the number Leah used was
610. 23:08prepaid and untraceable all the photos
611. 23:10of the children were taken from the
612. 23:12internet everyone I talked to about this
613. 23:14tells me the same thing I was moments
614. 23:16away from being trafficked the worst
615. 23:19part about that whole thing was that I
616. 23:20wasted all that money on those plane
617. 23:22tickets and traumatized myself
618. 23:24permanently looking back I know how
619. 23:26lucky I am I was away from something
620. 23:29terrible something I can barely let
621. 23:31myself imagine the whole situation was
622. 23:34calculated from start to finish and if I
623. 23:36hadn't trusted my gut I might not be
624. 23:38here to tell the story it took some time
625. 23:41but I eventually made my way back to
626. 23:42France this time through a verified
627. 23:44agency I'm hoping to eventually fulfill
628. 23:47residency requirements and become a
629. 23:49permanent citizen here
630. 23:51[Music]