Man gets 27 years for enslaving housekeeper

[Truthiness Inspector]

CENTENNIAL, Colorado (AP) -- A man convicted of sexually assaulting an Indonesian housekeeper and keeping her virtually as a slave was sentenced Thursday to 27 years to life in prison.

Homaidan Al-Turki, 37, denied the charges and blamed anti-Muslim prejudice for the case against him. He said prosecutors persuaded the housekeeper to accuse him after they failed to build a case that he was a terrorist.

Defense attorney John Richilano said he would appeal the convictions.

Prosecutors and FBI agents said Al-Turki and his wife, Sarah Khonaizan, brought the now 24-year-old woman to Colorado to care for their five children and to cook and clean for the family. An affidavit said she spent four years with the family, sleeping on a mattress on the basement floor and getting paid less than $2 a day.

Al-Turki said he treated the woman the same way any observant Muslim family would treat a daughter.

"Your honor, I am not here to apologize, for I cannot apologize for things I did not do and for crimes I did not commit," he told the judge. "The state has criminalized these basic Muslim behaviors. Attacking traditional Muslim behaviors was the focal point of the prosecution."

More here:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/31/slavery.sentence.ap/index.html

[Demeter]

1. He COULD Have Married Her

but with the new laws, she would have won property rights and a green card. TS buddy.

[Nikia]

2. I have heard that this is a problem in Saudi Arabia

They import a poor woman or women from Southesat Asia and treat her like crap. For some reason, it is perfectly acceptable over there. This man has simply imported the custom.