Friday, September 15, 2006 · Last updated 1:20 a.m. PT
By ANDREW GLAZER
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Ngoc Bich Nguyen's mother was lured far from Vietnam by the promise of a high-paying factory job that she hoped would allow both of her daughters to attend college.
Instead, she ended up in a Samoan sweatshop, a victim of smugglers who enslaved her and about 250 other desperate women from China and Vietnam.