A Virginia family was sentenced to federal prison Tuesday for forcing a Pakistani immigrant to perform labor around their home for more than a decade, prosecutors said.
Virginia family members
Zahida Aman, 80, and her two sons, Mohammed Naumman Chaudhri, 54, and Mohammed Rehan Chaudhri, 48, were convicted in May of conspiracy toThe court has also ordered the family to pay the victim $250,000 in restitution for back wages and otherL-R: Mohammed Rehan Chaudhri, 48; Zahida Aman, 80; Mohammed Naumann Chaudhri, 54.Aman arranged for one of her sons' marriage to the victim in 2002.
The family compelled the woman to serve them as a domestic servant by using physical and verbal abuse and restricting her communication with her family in Pakistan, according to evidence presented in court. and money and threatened to separate her from her children by deporting her to Pakistan, the evidence says. On at least one occasion, the family hog-tied the woman’s hands and feet and dragged her down the stairs in front of her children, according to the evidence.
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