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New York Modern Day Slavery Case Guilty Verdict
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host on 17 December, 2007 12:27:00
 
Assistant US Attorney Demitri Jones has called the allegations "truly a case of
modern-day slavery".
The women, prosecutors said, were subjected to beatings, had scalding water
thrown on them and were forced to repeatedly climb up stairs and take as many as
30 showers in three hours - all as punishment for perceived misdeeds. In one
case, prosecutors said, one of the women was forced to eat 25 hot chili peppers
at one time.