Judge Awards $3.3 Million to Yemeni Sex Slave Kept by Embassy Worker in Tokyo
Embassy worker's husband repeatedly raped the woman, who was hired to be a housekeeper but paid under a dollar an hour
Virginia federal judge awarded $3.3 million to a Yemeni woman who was enslaved by a State Department employee and repeatedly raped by that worker's husband.
The 12-page decision does not name the woman who was kept in involuntary servitude for three months in 2009.
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Was that State Department employee's husband, say, a speaker at the recent DNC convention?
Nasty, nasty. Shame on you.