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Texas couple brings Nigerian nanny to America — then turns her into a slave

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Malyse

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A Texas couple was arrested on Monday for enslaving a Nigerian woman who they brought to the United States under the belief she would be caring for their children, the Houston Press reports.

Chudy Nsobundu, 56, and his wife Sandra, 50, were charged with forced labor, visa fraud, withholding documents and harboring conspiracy. The victim was also subjected to punishment, like being beaten for putting the wrong pair of socks on one of the couple’s five adopted children, and denied access to fresh food, water and medical care.

According to the Press, the 38-year-old woman was living in Lagos when she was contacted by Sandra Nsobundu in 2012. She worked for the couple for a year in Nigeria before they brought her with them to the United States. She believed she would be paid $100 a month to care for the couple’s children.

Instead she was not paid and forced to work from 5:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. every day, the Press reports. She was not allowed to sit down during her workday or watch T.V. She was forced to eat only leftover food and couldn’t even use fresh milk for her tea. She was forced to strain milk from used cereal instead. The couple also forced her to sleep on the floor with their two 3-year-olds because, they told her, she was “too smelly” for a bed.

The couple also referred to her as “the idiot” and Sandra Nsobundu threatened to shoot and kill her if she didn’t properly take care of the children.

The couple also took away all her personal possessions, including her passport.

The break in the case happened in October 2015 when the victim called her bank in Nigeria and discovered she had not been paid by the couple since arriving in the U.S. a month earlier, someone notified the National Human Trafficking Resource Center about the woman’s predicament. A month later, she fled the home with a caseworker from the YMCA International Trafficked Persons Assistance Program.

If convicted the couple faces 60 years in prison and $1 million in fines, according to the Press.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/te...nanny-to-america-then-turns-her-into-a-slave/

No pithy comment or gif from me this time. I'm too pissed the fuck off.
 
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Kinitari

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One of the hardest things for me to consolidate in my mind here is how this couple could be the sort of couple who adopts children, but then also are fucking terrible human beings.

I'm trying to understand the nuance of the situation here, and it's mostly beyond me. The best I can do is remember when I visited Ethiopia as a kid and the utter and sheer disrespect I saw some of my relatives show towards servants, and think that there must be a fundamental dehumanization that happened here.
 
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mnannola

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Can they just turn the couple into her slaves instead? Seems much more fair than just having to go to prison.

EDIT: Damn Beaten like these criminals should be.
 
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Slayven

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Verano

Reads Ace as Lace. May God have mercy on their soul
black people enslaving other black people..seriously wtf texas...I hope these two douchebags get thrown in prison soon
 
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UnemployedVillain

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Give them the full fuckin 60 years. Fucking savages.
Not to mention...I read their names over and over, and they seem black themselves. Fucking shameful
 
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NoblesseOblige

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I'm usually anti-prison but... Christ. Prison is exactly what those two deserve. And I hope the person they wronged is given any support needed.
 
DJ_Lae

DJ_Lae

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Disgusting. Even the initial paltry $100 a month payment bit (that she didn't even fucking get) before all of the humiliating, degrading shit they put her through.
 
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torre_avenue

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What'll happen to the kids?

Will they be put in a foster home? Or given to some other relatives? 5 kids all left in a broken home because of the greed and sadism of their parents. This kind of story makes you realize just how easy it is to destroy multiple peoples' lives.

The nanny is left without money in the US, the parents are going to be in jail for 60 years and likely lose a large chunk of their assets, the kids are going be impacted in a negative way.
 
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BreezyLimbo

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Apparently the couple were naturalized US citizens from Nigeria, it might explain why they thought they could abuse a fellow Nigerian. What a horrible situation.
 
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Leynos

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Even the adopted children sleep on the floor? Did I read that correctly? Probably should look at removing them.
 
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FortuneFaded

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There's a lot of slavery still going on in the world:

"The Global Slavery Index 2013 states that 10 nations account for 76 percent of the world's enslaved. India has the most slaves of any country, at 14 million (over 1% of the population). China has the second-largest number with 2.9 million slaves, followed by Pakistan with 2.1 million, Nigeria with 701,000, Ethiopia with 651,000, Russia with 516,000, Thailand with 473,000, Congo with 462,000, Myanmar with 384,000, and Bangladesh with 343,000.[7]

Mauritania was the last nation to officially abolish slavery, doing so in 2007; yet 4.3% of the population still remains enslaved"
 
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BriGuy

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Kinitari said:
One of the hardest things for me to consolidate in my mind here is how this couple could be the sort of couple who adopts children, but then also are fucking terrible human beings.
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We don't know what they were grooming the children for. I don't know their situation, but I wouldn't be terribly surprised if it was for sex trafficking or the like.
 
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Sir_Crocodile

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Kinitari said:
One of the hardest things for me to consolidate in my mind here is how this couple could be the sort of couple who adopts children, but then also are fucking terrible human beings.
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Doesn't sound like they looked after them well

The couple also forced her to sleep on the floor with their two 3-year-olds because, they told her, she was “too smelly” for a bed.

Probably did it for the child support money
 
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MartyStu

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FortuneFaded said:
There's a lot of slavery still going on in the world:

"The Global Slavery Index 2013 states that 10 nations account for 76 percent of the world's enslaved. India has the most slaves of any country, at 14 million (over 1% of the population). China has the second-largest number with 2.9 million slaves, followed by Pakistan with 2.1 million, Nigeria with 701,000, Ethiopia with 651,000, Russia with 516,000, Thailand with 473,000, Congo with 462,000, Myanmar with 384,000, and Bangladesh with 343,000.[7]

Mauritania was the last nation to officially abolish slavery, doing so in 2007; yet 4.3% of the population still remains enslaved"
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I...I can't.

This hurts my soul.
 
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Dirtyshubb

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Kinitari said:
One of the hardest things for me to consolidate in my mind here is how this couple could be the sort of couple who adopts children, but then also are fucking terrible human beings.

I'm trying to understand the nuance of the situation here, and it's mostly beyond me. The best I can do is remember when I visited Ethiopia as a kid and the utter and sheer disrespect I saw some of my relatives show towards servants, and think that there must be a fundamental dehumanization that happened here.
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People decide to have kids and then murder, torture, rape etc them all the time so adopting isn't that surprising.

Also, I'm willing to bet the idea of adoption for these people is similar to how they got off with treating this poor woman, an item to own.
 
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Toxi

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Kinitari said:
One of the hardest things for me to consolidate in my mind here is how this couple could be the sort of couple who adopts children, but then also are fucking terrible human beings.
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I'm not particularly surprised.

Slave owners throughout history have done plenty of good deeds for other people while treating human beings worse than cattle. It doesn't take a sociopathic mindset to enslave a person, just some very selective morality.
 
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Alavard

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She believed she would be paid $100 a month to care for the couple’s children.
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The break in the case happened in October 2015 when the victim called her bank in Nigeria and discovered she had not been paid by the couple since arriving in the U.S. a month earlier
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The extra sad part to me is that based on this, if they had paid her that $100, it's possible this would still be going on, and no one would know.
 
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jmdajr

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wienke said:
Aren't we the nation's capital for human trafficking also? :\
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We've got problems man.

edit:

Major U.S. hubs

The main factors that contribute to high levels of trafficking through Atlanta and Houston are proximity, demographics, and a large migrant labor force.[144] The presence of two large airports provides ways in and out of the city in Houston and in Atlanta having the worlds busiest and largest airport makes it easy.[145] Proof for the high level of trafficking in Atlanta and Houston includes the high majority of calls to National Trafficking Hotline coming from The Atlanta Center and Houston.
 
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dave is ok

aztek is ok
This happens pretty often. Always seems to be people who could easily afford the services they are enslaving for too.

Glad they were caught.
 
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