Mom finds a creepy note in pack of baby's underwear bought from the Philippines

Nicole Perez, a mom, was at a mom-to-mom sale last weekend when she picked up a pack of underwear decorated with “Disney Fairies” for her daughter.

Nicole never ever expected to find anything like this inside one of her purchases.

Inside she found a handwritten note on cardboard with a seriously disturbing message. It also had the name and contact details of the woman in question.

Handwritten onto a piece of cardboard were the words, 'Help me! Plz.' The back of the note had a woman's name, 'MayAnn,' and even listed a phone number, together with the words: 'Location: Philippines.

“I was terrified,” Nicole tells the news. “I just felt like everything just dropped to my stomach.”

The underwear was packaged in a factory located in the Philippines owned by an American manufacturing company, Handcraft.

She emailed the manufacturer, who promptly replied with an apology and an offer for a new pack of underwear. After emailing the makers of the clothing, they offered to send her back a new set of Tinkerbell underwear.

Ms Perez was left feeling unsettled, worried and particularly concerned about the woman who wrote the note.

'You're wondering if this is forced labor, if they're just working long hours, they're putting these underwear together and clearly someone is reaching out for help and so you think about your own kids and you hope that this isn't the case,' Ms Perez said.

Ms Perez tried to call the number but it was not reachable.

Unfortunately, Rebecca Tungol, president of the Philippine American Cultural Center of Michigan, tells ABC 7 that most people in the Philippines use prepaid cellphones, which are untraceable.

“This can happen to anything that you buy,” she said. “You never known, but you are a little bit more aware of where things are coming from,” Perez added.