Investigator details woman's allegations of forced labor

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Houston Chronicle

By SUSAN CARROLL

An Indonesian woman told investigators she was locked up in a Sugar Land home, forced to work without pay for years and beaten with a coat hanger, a federal agent testified Friday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement special agent Sharron Sanborn said the woman escaped from Rozina Ali, a 42-year-old legal permanent resident from Malaysia, by sneaking out of a window on Aug. 19.

Ali faces multiple criminal counts in the human trafficking case, including recruiting or harboring a person for forced labor, which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison.

At a bond hearing Friday afternoon in federal court in Houston, Sanborn said Ali brought the Indonesian woman, who was not identified in court, to the U.S. from Malaysia in 2002, taking her through immigration inspection and then allegedly keeping her passport and visa.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5136837.html

[Joanne98]

1. He probably knows Tom Delay!

[Doctor Panacea]

2. A "he"?

Well, I guess it was a "he", but the nitwit reporter never identified the arrested person as male or female; I read the story twice, and I could not find any pronoun references anywhere that would help.

[Cobalt Violet]

4. Rozina is a female name.

I'm thinking it was a woman who enslaved a woman.

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Sugar Land ... who woulda guessed. nt