I suppose that's possible too, different articles tell different accounts of the girl's circumstances.
http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2008/05/officials_call_it_slavery_but.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/12/02/slave.labor.ring.busted/
and this video...
While I could be way off on this theory, the timing is interesting. The initial arrests on in the Human Trafficking cases were in Early September of 2007: Human trafficking alleged in hair salons in Newark, E. Orange http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2007/09/human_trafficking_alleged_in_h.html...
So I too am originally from Bayonne, I lived there back when the UID was discovered. I had a theory about this a while ago that I posted as a comment of an NJ.com article, but I always thought that somehow this woman was tied to this incident: Newark hair-braiding salon owner pleads guilty to...