A Brazilian woman who came to Sandy Springs in March 2005 is speaking out about the unexpected fate she met four years ago.

Joana Santos, then a recent university graduate from Goiás in the South American country’s interior, had earned a degree in hospitality management.

She was a 28-year-old from the countryside looking forward to a career in event planning or tourism when a woman approached her on the street and suggested she move to the United States — a place she was told she could make a lot of money working in retail.

Santos, said the business proposition seemed more attractive as it unfolded.

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