A Suicidal Nanny, an Underground Industry and 3 Babies Stabbed
An attack at a Queens maternity center shined a light on “birth tourism,†private, unregulated nurseries that cater to both Chinese tourists and New Yorkers.
By Liz Robbins and Christina Goldbaum
Oct. 10, 2018
Dark circles formed like warning signs beneath Yu Fen Wang’s eyes as she worked 12-hour graveyard shifts in a Queens maternity center that operated on the margins of legality. Her family said she had grown gaunt, could not sleep and told her husband she no longer wanted to live.
Her employers, however, said they needed her to work. And her family needed the money. She earned less than $100 a day, they said, working in a private house that had been converted into a combined nursery and hotel for newborn babies and their mothers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/10/nyregion/queens-daycare-stabbing-nanny.html