[list_indonesia] [ppiindia] Indonesian jailed for 46 months in U.S. for forcing maid into slavery
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- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:23:03 +0700
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Indonesian jailed for 46 months in U.S. for forcing maid into slavery
The Jakarta Post - March 08, 2005
LOS ANGELES, California (AFP): An Indonesian woman was jailed for
nearly four years on Monday for forcing a maid from her home country
into virtual slavery in the United States.
U.S. District Judge Christina Snyder put Mariska Trisanti behind bars
for 46 months and warned that she could face deportation upon her
release after she admitted a year ago to holding a young woman in
involuntary servitude.
As U.S. authorities crack down on human trafficking, Assistant U.S.
Attorney General for Civil Rights, Alexander Acosta, said that holding
a person in involuntary servitude was "morally reprehensible."
"The Justice Department is committed to aggressivelyinvestigating and
prosecuting those who perpetrate this ancient evil," he said.
Trisanti brought the victim to Los Angeles on a tourist visa in 1997 to
work for her as a nanny and housekeeper for two years, federal
prosecutors said.
But after the woman arrived, Trisanti confiscated her passport, used
threats and physical abuse to force her to work 17 hours a day, seven
days a week and eventually stopped paying her during her three-year
ordeal.
In order to control her servant, the abusive employer told the woman,
who was not identified, that if the she tried to escape, she would be
arrested and put in jail.
The terrified maid finally escaped in 2000, along with another woman,
when Trisanti was away on a trip to Indonesia.
Trisanti could have faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail and
US$250,000 fine.
Trisanti's husband, Herri Nasution, was sentenced last year to three
years of probation. (***)
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