The family of a former Pakistani Army Brigadier General in the southeastern state of Virginia has been found guilty by a federal court of forcing his daughter-in-law into 12 years of forced labor.
A federal court in Richmond, the state capital, sentenced 80-year-old Zaheda Aman to 12 years in prison. Mohammad Rehan Chowdary, 48 to 10 years old. Mohammad Nauman Chowdary (55) was extended to 5 years.
Aman and Rehan Chaudhry were also awarded $250,000 in unpaid wages and other monetary damages to victim Maira Bhatt.
In May, the defendant was sentenced to hard labor by a jury. Aman was found guilty of forced labor and forced labor and Reyhan Chowdary was found guilty of forced labor.
Aman arranged her son Bhatt’s marriage in 2002 and kept him along with the other accused in the Virginia house to serve as a maid after her husband left the house.
“These defendants ruthlessly exploited their victim’s vulnerability and brutally forced her to work through physical violence and emotional abuse,” Assistant US Attorney Kristen Clarke said in a statement.
Indeed, in the course of their illegal agreement and in furtherance of their criminal conspiracy, each of the defendants sexually assaulted, molested, molested and molested the child [victim] and forced her to work. they did Assistant District Attorneys Stephen Miller and Shai Gibbons said in separate court filings that it was consistently convincing.
In addition, prosecutors said, the three families would evict Bat from key areas of their home, limit his access to food and basic relationships, and separate him from his children in an effort to end the conspiracy. We took measures to conceal it. their actions
The effects of the forced labor and mistreatment were so painful that Beth attempted suicide twice, once by consuming rat poison and once by overdosing on sleeping pills.
Butt lost 60 pounds and a lock of hair during the ordeal and was physically unrecognizable when one of his brothers first met him after traveling to the United States from Pakistan.
