Posted on 03/12/2020 8:35:41 AM PDT by ransomnote
A Hudson County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 70 months of prison for her conviction on charges of forced labor, alien harboring for financial gain, and marriage fraud, the Department of Justice announced.
Alia Imad Faleh Al Hunaity, aka “Alia Al Qaternah,” 44, was found guilty in May 2019 on all counts of the indictment against her following a six-day trial before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler, who imposed the sentence today in Camden federal court.
According to documents filed in this case and the evidence at trial:
Hunaity brought the victim, a Sri Lankan national, to the United States on a temporary visa in 2009 to perform domestic work. Hunaity caused the victim to overstay her visa and remain in the United States illegally for over nine years. Hunaity forced the victim to cook and clean her homes in Woodland Park and Secaucus, New Jersey, and to care for her three children, all without pay. She limited the victim’s interactions with the world outside of Hunaity’s homes. During this time, Hunaity required the victim to sleep on a bed in a public space in Hunaity’s homes, including in the kitchen. In 2018, Hunaity forced the victim to marry her so that the victim could obtain legal residence and Hunaity could continue to force her to work without fear of the victim being deported.
In addition to the prison term, Judge Kugler sentenced Al Hunaity to three years of supervised release.
U.S. Attorney Carpenito and Assistant Attorney General Dreiband credited special agents of U.S. Homeland Security Investigations, Newark Division, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Brian Michael, and special agents of the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, New York Region, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge Michael C. Mikulka, with the investigation leading to today’s sentencing.
This case was prosecuted in conjunction with the interagency Anti-Trafficking Coordination Team initiative of the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security and Labor. ACTeams focus on developing high-impact human trafficking investigations and prosecutions involving forced labor, international sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion through interagency collaboration among federal prosecutors and federal investigative agencies.
The government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Macurdy and Trial Attorney Kate Hill of the Civil Rights Division’s Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.
"Hunaity required the victim to sleep on a bed in a public space in Hunaity’s homes, including in the kitchen. In 2018, Hunaity forced the victim to marry her so that the victim could obtain legal residence and Hunaity could continue to force her to work without fear of the victim being deported."
70 months? I think 9 years plus one day would be more appropriate.
All cultures are equal, and if your Holy Book promotes slavery, rape and abuse of women, then who are we to judge?
Meanwhile, Whitey is blamed for the slavery that ended before he was born.
Bringing slavery back to the USA Middle Eastern Style.
Nine years
70 months.
My ninth grade students are more consistent with their writing than this
9 years
4.8 years
Propagandists.
They want us to trust the justice system and they refuse to be transparent.
Sick
Less incarceration than her victim.
If the offender had been a guy with all the other same details, LE would have thrown away the key.
Big Media would have also called it “’sexual’ slavery”.
70 months? I think 9 years plus one day would be more appropriate.
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Federal court.That’s the way they do sentencing.
Sorry, sentence is not nearly enough for me.
And for those youngsters out there, more than eight years before the terrorist PLO there was "NO Time For Sergeants" and PLO stood for 'Permanent Latrine Orderly'. If you have never seen the movie you are missing out.
Not even close to enough time.
"Alia Imad Faleh Al Hunaity"? No mention if she was born here or emigrated. If the latter, why wasn't she stripped of her citizenship and sent back home?
There oughtta be a law - conviction of a crime strips any immigrant of citizenship and deportation.
After she got married she should have turned on the soaps, gotten a big glass of wine and told Hunaity to make her own dinner. If Hunaity complained, then the “new wife” could claim spousal abuse, place a restraining order against Hunaity, ask for 50% assets, house payments and spousal support.
11 Mar: NY Post: NJ woman jailed for enslaving Sri Lankan national as housekeeper
Hunaity is a naturalized citizen from Jordan who worked in New York as a cancer research scientist, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports...
https://nypost.com/2020/03/11/nj-woman-jailed-for-enslaving-sri-lankan-national-as-housekeeper/
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