Please keep an eye out for any abuses in our Private Service community. The only time it makes sense to get into anyone else's personal business is to make sure they are safe and protected. This is shameful and hopefully the “slave” mentality of abusive employers will die off in the next generation.
A Qatari military official and his wife were charged by U.S. prosecutors in Texas on Monday with withholding wages from two of their housekeepers from Indonesia and Bangladesh, forcing them to live in squalor and preventing them from leaving.Hassan Salem Al Homoud and his wife, Zainab Al Hosani, were charged with engaging in forced labor and could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas said.A lawyer for the couple was not immediately available for comment.Al Homoud, a Qatari military official living in the San Antonio area where he is undergoing training, and his wife brought the housemaid and servant in mid-2014 to Texas to work for their family.“The criminal complaint alleges that the defendants housed the workers in primitive conditions, restricted their ability to move or travel, and provided them with limited amounts of food,” the office said in a statement.
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