The wife of convicted human trafficker Franco Orr says the jury made a mistake, and her husband plans to appeal the verdict.

Nicole Huen said she couldn’t believe her ears when her husband was found guilty of trafficking the couple’s Fililpina nanny on Wednesday, just moments after she was acquitted of the same crime.

“I was so shocked. I kept asking him, ‘What happened?’” Sarmiento said. “We didn’t do it. This is the fact. God will know it and she is the fairest in the world, she will handle for us.”

Orr was also convicted of employing a foreign national illegally.

B.C. Supreme Court heard the couple convinced nanny Leticia Sarmiento to come to Vancouver from Hong Kong in 2008 with promises that she’d be treated fairly and eventually become a permanent resident.

But when she arrived, she claims she was barred from leaving the couple’s East Vancouver home alone and forced to work 16 hours a day without a single day off for nearly two years.

She also testified that Huen lost her temper and pushed Sarmiento twice after the nanny gave one of the couple’s three kids the wrong milk.

On Friday, Huen countered those allegations with pictures of their family and Sarmiento smiling together. She told CTV News they paid the nanny $500 a month while Orr worked a $12 per hour security job, and that all of them lived in a suite in a relative’s house.

“The only thing we are guilty of is being too soft-hearted,” Huen said.

Defense lawyer Nick Preovolos argued that Sarmiento made the story up so that she’d be entitled to back pay and be allowed to stay in Canada.

Preovolos said Orr’s appeal will focus on how the jury could find him guilty but his wife innocent.

“The allegations between the two are intertwined,” he said. “The verdicts were inconsistent, and therefore the verdict against him was unreasonable.”

Crown prosecutors are standing by Sarmiento’s story and say they will push for Orr to serve jail time at an upcoming sentencing hearing on July 10. The maximum penalty is life in prison.

With a report from CTV British Columbia’s Jon Woodward