Cases
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United States v. Herri Nasution: Between 1996 and 2000, a wife and husband named Herri Nasution and Mariska Trisanti held two undocumented Indonesian females as domestic servants in their house in California. In 1996, the two women were flown to Los Angeles on tourist visas. The women were promised paid work as housekeepers and domestic servants. However, when they arrived, the married couple made the servants work 17 hours a day for 7 days a week with no pay. The husband confiscated the servants' passports and held them at their house by threats of abuse and torture. In 2000, the husband left the house on a trip to Indonesia, leaving only the wife responsible for the two servants. The two Indonesian servants then escaped while the husband was in Indonesia.
United States v. Mariece Sims: In 2006, Mariece Sims and Dwayne B. Thigpen abducted a 16-year-old girl from Arkansas. They both prostituted the girl in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Georgia. They both used threats of physical violence and even once sexually assaulted the girl to force her into prostitution. The victim went to a police station in Atlanta to tell the police. However, the girl got tired of waiting just to file a complaint so she left the police station. When she emerged from the police station, she was assaulted by Mariece Sims. Thigpen plead guilty to transporting the victim knowing that she was going to be used for prostitution, he got 60 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. A federal jury found Sims guilty of forced labor, kidnapping, sex trafficking of children, and transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Sims was issued life in prison but it got shortened to 28 years by an appeal by him and his lawyer.
United States v. Mariece Sims: In 2006, Mariece Sims and Dwayne B. Thigpen abducted a 16-year-old girl from Arkansas. They both prostituted the girl in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Georgia. They both used threats of physical violence and even once sexually assaulted the girl to force her into prostitution. The victim went to a police station in Atlanta to tell the police. However, the girl got tired of waiting just to file a complaint so she left the police station. When she emerged from the police station, she was assaulted by Mariece Sims. Thigpen plead guilty to transporting the victim knowing that she was going to be used for prostitution, he got 60 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. A federal jury found Sims guilty of forced labor, kidnapping, sex trafficking of children, and transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Sims was issued life in prison but it got shortened to 28 years by an appeal by him and his lawyer.