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Long Island
Kind deeds lead to gruesome discovery
BY DEBORAH S. MORRIS
deborah.morris@newsday.com
May 15, 2007, 10:40 PM EDT
Shortly after the confused and disheveled woman showed up in the early
morning hours of Mother's Day at a Dunkin' Donuts in Syosset, the two
workers knew she needed help.
The woman, who officials said had been held as a slave in a
multimillion-dollar Muttontown home for several years, sought shelter at
52 W. Jericho Tpke.
A night manager gave her some bagels before the woman left at 5:30 a.m.
But when manager Adrian Mohammed, 26, arrived half an hour later, he
noticed the woman standing across West Jericho Turnpike. He said he
didn't know why he did it, but he motioned for her to come in.
The woman silently accepted the invitation. She took a few sips from a
large coffee and put on a jacket Mohammed offered her. "... I tried
Spanish, but there was no answer," he said. "But when I said 'home' or
'work' she said, 'No home, my home is master.'" Mohammed said when he
pressed to find out more, the woman made motions as if she had been
beaten.
"The only English she said was 'home' as she pulled out her Indonesian
passport and started pointing and crying and saying she wanted to go
home," he said.
Mohammed said the woman also showed him inner arms covered with small
bruises. He said he asked another customer who worked at a nursing home
to check her out. "I called 911 right away," he said, after they
discovered scars behind the woman's ears.
Mohammed said he was glad to help. "... To know what went on, I would
never want my mother or anyone's mother to be treated like that," he
said. "It made the day more sentimental."
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Atheist n A person to be pitied in that he is
unable to believe things for which there is
no evidence, and who has thus deprived himself of
a convenient means of feeling superior to others.
—Chaz Bufe, The American Heretic’s Dictionary
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