Her therapist and her attorney say all of this is because Pérez is only now learning how to live in freedom after spending 30 years in captivity, working as a slave. Since the family only spoke Huasteco, the local indigenous dialect, the woman showed up accompanied by a local translator who spoke Spanish. "I was at first elated because I was going to be able to help my family without having to sell fruit. She went to the hospital and that's when I escaped," Pérez said. If we traveled and stayed at a hotel, she wanted to do the beds, wanted to do chores," Paredes said.

Source: CNN April 27, 2017 09:56 UTC