Nallanayaki, a child worker cannot leave the silk loom in a small town in Tamil Nadu, until she pays the $146 loan her parents took from her employer. But her salary of less than 17 cents a day won't allow her to buy freedom until long after she is dead. Nallanayaki is a bonded laborer working in conditions of servitude. An estimated 15 million children are bonded in India. Of course, bondage is illegal under Indian law. So is all child labor in the silk industry. The laws promise that employers will be prosecuted and children will be freed and sent to school. But the legislation is not being enforced.