However, upon opening the pack, she discovered more than just undergarments. Wrapped inside the plastic was also a hidden message that read “Help me, plz,” with the name “MayAnn,” a location, and a telephone number.
“I was terrified,” Nicole tells ABC 7. “I just felt like everything just dropped to my stomach.”The underwear was packaged in a factory located in the Philippines owned by an American manufacturing company, Handcraft.
Nicole said she quickly sent an email explaining that she had found a note in a package of their underwear to the manufacturer, who offered an apology and a new pack of underwear.
However, Nicole wasn’t worried about the undergarments, she was worried about the person who was trying to convey a potentially “desperate” plea for help.
No one could be reached at the telephone number written on the cardboard.
“You’re wondering if this is forced labor, if they’re just working long hours, they’re putting these underwear together and clearly someone is reaching out for help and so you think about your own kids and you hope that this isn’t the case,” Nicole says.Unfortunately, Rebecca Tungol, president of the Philippine American Cultural Center of Michigan, say that most people in the Philippines use prepaid cellphones, which are untraceable, and because the package of underwear was second-hand, its hard to tell when the note was written exactly.
Handcraft on the other hand said the message could have been old since the batch number on the pack of underwear was at least 2 years old.
In order to help officials gauge whether the S.O.S message was legitimate or not, Nicole has sent the package, along with the note, back to Handcraft headquarters, so they could find the tracking number and date the package was made.
39 comments:
Creepy
I smell a rat. A big one
Shock waves flowed down my spine reading this, trying to imagine what prompted the person to send such message,I guess this would be her final resort and possible hope of being saved. I pray Ann gets the help she needs.
~BONARIO~says so via NOKIA LUMIA
And she would have helped o
good parent #motherhood# olaniyidavid71@yahoo.com
Na wa o,shi! Happening everywhere.
She shld better take dat to d police, αи∂ extricate herself from whatever crazy thing will happen
#IT will ONLY get BETTER
#it MUST end IN praise
Indeed someone is trying to reach out for help and I wonder if there r no other means to seek help.
Who knows what has become of the writer of the SOS!
Chai! Dis is heart wrenching. Linda take note!
Chai! Dis is heart wrenching. Linda take note!
Chai! Dis is heart wrenching. Linda take note!
ok that is good for them
Eiya
Lib freak
Linda, you need to see a documentary on the Philippines, people are chased by the police from one slum to another and kids are shot too. Very distressing to watch... The government hid a lot of things from the outside world. Those who are able to flee hardly return. They go for good education and jobs and thank God.
No comment here? Probably because no money was at stake!
Strange, wish the stuff was sold much earlier b4 the lady bought it, that person needs help desperately who knows what has happened aand the situation the writer was as at when she wrote it.
That vuvuzela P guy
Strange, wish the stuff was sold much earlier b4 the lady bought it, that person needs help desperately who knows what has happened and the situation the writer was as at when she wrote it.
That vuvuzela P guy
LORD save her,the woman shouldn't have disclose the info. TIMILEYIN BLESSING
I HOPE DE FYN HLP INCSE ITS A YOUNG GIL SUFERRIN ABUSE.....TOMJERRYSWIT
Hmm...something was actually wrong. The manufactures should be probe.
Its really disturbing.Its seems like a case of someone who has been subjected to a kind of maltreatment by some oppressors;like she just dropped the note at the slightest opportunity she got...nd everything could be a scam all along!
This Nicole mumu o.
She contacted the company??? Instead of security agencies?
Hmmmm wish dey can help her
That's serious
Seyilicious
So she sent the message back to the manufacturers of the clothes? The people who might just be responsible for the forced labor or whatever hellish condition the workers are being put through? That was a lame move...very lame
She shud hv informed the police first so dat they'll investigate it..
no be small thing oh
Hmmmmm so mysterious
Hmmmmm so mysterious
Hmmmmm so mysterious
Some of this nots are faked so that you will mane attempt to help them come to america..its a scam
Pray they help her if she needs it
Ok noted
If you can singer better than BRANDY, then you are a WITCH!!!
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They shouldn't have gone public until after an investigation. The culprits will now block all access to the truth. Or even still, kill this suffering girl.(whomever she is).
linda yu did nt aprove my coment haha theres god o olaniyidavid71@yahoo.com
Stfu. Shock wave ko earthquake ni. Ode
Hmmmmm
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