Posted on 04/14/2016 6:10:31 AM PDT by xp38
A Southern California couple accused of forcing an Indonesian woman to work as an unpaid live-in maid are victims of "cultural confusion," their attorney said on Wednesday.
The case against Firas Majeed and Shatha Abbas, who are originally from Iraq, stems from misunderstandings due to money and language differences among the immigrants, defense attorney Douglas Brown told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Majeed, 44, and Abbas, 38, were arrested this month on charges they forced their housekeeper to work up to 18 hours a day without pay in their San Diego-area apartment.
"All the people involved are poor, there are least three languages involved - Bahasa Indonesian, Arabic and English - and there are cultural differences among the parties," Brown said.
"So it's a confusing scenario for all of them," he said.
The housekeeper was removed from the couple's home by agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security after she slipped a hand-written note to a visiting nurse in March, according to court documents.
The note said she was being abused, and it asked for help, according to the documents.
Majeed and Abbas, who face federal charges of forced labor, trafficking and document servitude, entered pleas of not guilty last week in U.S. District Court in San Diego.
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I’d recommend stripping them of citizenship and immediate deportation
Seems to me this isn’t a U.S. woman; she is a FOREIGNER here probably under false circumstances and sold into servitude by foreigners. Calling her a US woman is disingenuous. There is no US birthright, citizenship or legal status (given the circumstances here).
No reparations for slavery, it was just cultural confusion. /s
I agree but I don’t write the headlines.
Understood. No complaints meant to you. I’m just sick of all this false profiling.
It’s not “slavery” slavery #WhoopiLogic
We could blame a yahoo at Yahoo but I think it’s a symptom of a much larger world outlook known as liberalism.
What’s the international symbol for Bull Shit?
Indeed
Pity that cultural confusion. We just tie them up, put a bag over their heads, and drop them off in the middle of the Mexican part of the Sonora Desert.
We thought they were homesick. Cultural confusion on our part, no doubt. . . (evil grin)
Slavery is OK in Islam.
It’s racist to hold them to our standards...../s
George Costanza defense
I won’t post anything here but an internet search will bring up a lot of meters and emblems.
It seems she was being paid with room and board.
I dont get why this would be illegal.
Liberals saying that Islam is a religion of peace (when the Quran itself says the opposite) is the worst example of cultural confusion we have. I guess “cultural confusion” is the new “affluenza” defense which will be accepted by the degnerates who run America’s courts.
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