Sandra (Pictured
above) and her husband Chudy Nsobundu were arrested in Texas, U.S.A for
allegedly forcing a 38 year old Naija woman to work as a slave, while
subjecting her to bizarre abuse.
** This is a clear
story of when the witches in your father's village catch up with you. When
they say send Western Union you will be blowing grammar. Now they have
done you strong thing.
Read entire
story after the cut.
Chudy
Nsobundu, 56, and his wife Sandra, 50, were arrested yesterday and charged with
forced labor, visa fraud, withholding documents and harboring conspiracy after
allegedly enslaving the Nigerian woman and forcing her to work as a nanny to
the couple's five adopted children without pay. In addition to physical and
verbal abuse, federal prosecutors allege the woman was denied basic living
necessities — like fresh food, fresh water for drinking and bathing, and access
to medical treatment — and was allowed to leave the couple's five-bedroom house
at the end of a quiet Katy cul-de-sac only when she was taking the two youngest
children out for a walk.
In
2012, Sandra Nsobundu allegedly contacted the victim, who was living in Lagos,
Nigeria, at the time, through a mutual friend and asked her if she would come
to the United States to care for her adopted children. The Nsobundus have five
children, ages 21, 12, nine and two three-year olds (according to public
records, the 21-year old is a registered nurse). The victim signed a
"contract" to perform the duties, for which she believed she would
earn $100 a month, and soon traveled to Texas using fraudulent identification
documents allegedly paid for by the Nsobundus.
Once
she arrived at the Nsobundus' home at 6415 Arroyo Hill Court, the couple
allegedly threw all of the woman's clothes in the garbage and told her she was
not allowed to have her own possessions, including her passport, which the
couple allegedly kept locked in their bedroom. The feds claim she was forced to
sleep on the floor in the two youngest kids' rooms because, as the Nsobundus
told her, she was "too smelly" for the bed.
The
victim told investigators with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that
she worked 5:30 a.m. to 1 a.m. every day, and was not allowed to watch TV or
even sit down during her workday. She was allegedly not allowed to eat fresh
food, only leftovers, and could not even use fresh milk for her tea. Instead,
Sandra Nsobundu made her "strain the milk out of the children's bowls of
cereal," according to the complaint.
Culled from the Houston Press
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