However, she not only did not get paid but claimed she was abused by her employers during her one-year stay in Malaysia.

“At the first place I worked as a maid for just a week. They only allowed me to eat the bad leftover rice. Then they sold me to another place,” she said in an interview with the Phnom Penh Post.

Mom, 22, also worked as a maid in her second job in Malaysia. She worked there for seven months, and was again abused. Once, she was struck on the forehead with ice for placing medicine in the refrigerator.

Her third job was as a fruit seller, and it was here that she claimed she suffered the worst abuse.

She was beaten weekly for failing to lift the assigned 80kg to 90kg of fruit and locked in a refrigerator until she was unable to walk.

“I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t eat anything. I almost died. Now I still have difficulties breathing and feel the pain in my bones.”

Her harrowing experience came to light following the arrest of a Cambodian woman in Battambang, Cambodia, for allegedly trafficking five women into Malaysia.

According to a report in The Phnom Penh Post, Yeurn Pheap, 45, was arrested after the father of one of the victims lodged a police report.

Bun Vannara, chief of Battambang Province’s anti-human trafficking police, said that four of the women who had been trafficked into Malaysia were still able to travel between Malaysia and Cambodia.

However, Mom, who left Cambodia in November 2016, was only able to return on January 4, 2018.

Her ordeal ended when her employer finally sent her to a doctor, and subsequently to an agency, about a month before she was sent back to Cambodia.

“For all of this I have never gotten any salary,” she said, adding that she didn’t want any suspect to go to prison. “Just pay the money for what I worked.”

Vannara said there were two more suspects in the case and authorities were tracking them down.