A U.S. couple will go to jail after holding a Nigerian woman captive as an unpaid maid and nanny for two years in a Houston, Texas suburb, restricting her movements and threatening her if she objected, authorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n
The husband and wife will pay restitution of more than $100,000 to the victim, whom they lured from Lagos with promises of wages that were never paid, according to the Office of Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n
Sandra Nsobundu, 49, pleaded guilty to a forced labor documents charge and her husband Chudy Nsobundu, 57, pleaded guilty to visa fraud in hearings that ended late on Friday, the office said in a statement.<\/p>\n
The victim was rescued in October 2015 after a tip to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center.<\/p>\n
She had been living for more than two years with the Nsobundu family in Katy, Texas, officials said.<\/p>\n
During that time, the Nsobundus kept the woman\u2019s passport from her, did not pay her and threatened to send her back to Nigeria if she objected.<\/p>\n
They restricted her movements to two short walks each day around the block with their children and frequently yelled at her and berated her, officials said.<\/p>\n
The couple had helped falsify a U.S. visa application for the victim with lies to boost the chances that it would be approved and hide that she would be working illegally as a housemaid and nanny, officials said.<\/p>\n
Among the falsehoods, the application portrayed her as married and as 20 years older than she was, officials said. It also falsely claimed she was related to the Nsobundu family.<\/p>\n
Sandra and Chudy Nsobundu each will serve sentences of seven months in jail and seven months home confinement, and they will pay more than $121,000 in restitution to the victim, officials said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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