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After everything that Shyima had been through, the mental and physical abuse, being torn away from her family, and being stripped of her education until she was 13. She never once blamed it on an entire country, but on the people that treated her so horribly. After being rescued, Shyima decided that she did not want to go back to her family in Egypt, for the fear of being sold again. She was put into the foster care system in California and at the age of 17 was adopted by her foster family. At the age of 21 she took the American citizenship test and officially became an American citizen in December 2011.

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Going from Egypt to the USA is about 7000 miles. When Shyima arrived in the US, she suffered greatly from jet-leg. On average she was getting about 4-5 hours of sleep a night (often less) which made the transition much worse.

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Shyima's captors moved to Orange County, California, which was a huge transition from Egypt. Shyima spoke no English and had not experienced any other environment besides the streets of Egypt. She was smuggled in to the States by a "family friend" of the captors that was posing as her adoptive father. However, as soon as they had set foot in California, she was handed back over to her captors.

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Shyima Hall was born in Egypt to a poor family. She was the seventh out of eleven children and was a happy child that loved her family. That was until she was sold into slavery at the age of 8 by her oen parents. She was forced to leave her home country and move to the US with her captors to work as a domestic slave.

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A written interview with Shyima Hall that summarizes her time as a domestic slave.

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In 1998, eight-year-old Egyptian Shyima Hall was given to a couple in Cairo to pay off a $30 debt. For the next four years, she worked 20 hours a day as a slave, cooking, cleaning and never attending school. Two years into her capture, the family who enslaved her moved to Orange County and smuggled Hall in with them. Here, her life only became worse, with Hall not even allowed outside for fear of authorities discovering her.

Abdel Nasser Eid Youssef Ibrahim and his wife Amal Ahmed Ewis-abd El Motelib, whom Hall simply calls the dad and the mom, forced Hall to take care of their five children and clean their house, while denying Hall an education or any kind of normal life. But after two years in the U.S., a concerned neighbor called authorities and reported the strange goings-on, and Hall was rescued.

Now, after rebuilding her life, getting an education and becoming a mother herself, Hall has written a bestselling book, Hidden Girl, about her experience. So we sat down with this new U.S. citizen for the details that led to Orange County's first human trafficking prosecution.

Did their short sentence anger you?
Honestly, I was glad they got something and didn't get away with it. Especially because I didn't know how it worked here. And I have to say again that [the authorities] didn't really know how it worked either. It was the first case of its kind.

But your case set a precedent.
Yes. Because of my case, the law has changed a lot. Now, the penalty for anyone convicted of human trafficking is many times what my captors got. So it is sad that they only got a few years, but at least it is helping others.

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In 1998, eight-year-old Egyptian Shyima Hall was given to a couple in Cairo to pay off a $30 debt. For the next four years, she worked 20 hours a day as a slave, cooking, cleaning and never attending school. Two years into her capture, the family who enslaved her moved to Orange County and smuggled Hall in with them.

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A presentation by Hon. Virginia M. Kendall, District Judge, ILN
T. Markus Funk, Esq., Partner, Perkins Coie LLP
Shyima Hall, Victim Advocate

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United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

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Human Trafficking: The Reality, the Scope and the Consequences

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Human Trafficking: The Reality, the Scope and the Consequences Through a candid discussion with experts in the field of human trafficking and a survivor who has suffered this human rights violation, the panel will demonstrate the prevalence of human trafficking within the Ninth Circuit and the nation.