US woman jailed for slavery
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A wealthy New York woman has been jailed for 11 years for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves.
The two Indonesians were forced to work up to 20 hours a day for years and had their passports confiscated.
Indian-born Varsha Sabhnani and her husband, Mahender Sabhnani, were convicted in December of what prosecutors called "a case of modern-day slavery."
Mahender Sabhnani is yet to be sentenced.
Prosecutors said the couple, both US citizens, brought the two women to the United States from Indonesia with promises to pay $US200 a month for housekeeping duties.
Instead, the women testified, they were beaten with brooms, scalded with hot water and forced to eat hot chilli peppers as well as forced to carry out household duties.
