Fremont Woman Enslaved Chinese Housekeeper

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http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/fremont-woman-enslaved-chinese/

By Shoshana Walter |November 17, 2010 4:41 p.m. |In Courts

A Fremont woman was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Oakland to more than three years in prison for enslaving a Chinese woman as her housekeeper.

Fang Ping Ding, 62, pleaded guilty to confiscating the woman’s passport and visa, physically and verbally abusing her in order to force her to work as an unpaid servant, according to federal prosecutors. snip

According to prosecutors, Ding recruited the 49-year-old victim from Shanghai in 2007 to work as a domestic servant at her home for $650 per month. After moving in, the woman, who is originally from the Anhui province in China, was forced to work without pay from 7 a.m. to 1 a.m. for seven days a week. She cooked, cleaned and cared for the younger couple’s two children. Ding stole her passport and visa and restricted the woman's diet.

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1. Slavery in 21st Century America

K&R

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2. There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History

http://www.alternet.org/world/142171/there_are_more_slaves_today_than_at_any_time_in_human_history/

There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History

Ben Skinner spent four years inside the world of modern-day slavery; an industry that produces huge profits and countless wasted lives.

August 24, 2009

The world suffers global recession, enormous inequity, hunger, deforestation, pollution, climate change, nuclear weapons, terrorism, etc. To those who say we’re not really making progress, many might point to the fact that at least we’ve eliminated slavery.

But sadly that is not the truth.

One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years after Article 4 of the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights banned slavery and the slave trade worldwide, there are more slaves than at any time in human history -- 27 million.

Today’s slavery focuses on big profits and cheap lives. It is not about owning people like before, but about using them as completely disposable tools for making money.

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3. That shocks and disgustipates me

Thanks for the link.