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The Straight Story

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Sat Jan 28, 2012, 01:42 PM Jan 2012

Women Claim Writer Made Them Sex Slaves

Women Claim Writer Made Them Sex Slaves



MANHATTAN (CN) - Three women claim a cookbook writer from upstate New York hired them as au pairs, then sexually enslaved them.

Joseph Yannai, a cookbook author from Pound Ridge, N.Y., was convicted in June 2011 of forced labor, coercion, enticement and other charges related to sexual abuse.

This week his three victims - from Brazil, Hungary and France - sued Yannai and his wife, Elena Fusillo, seeking damages for slavery, sex trafficking and other charges, in Federal Court.

The complaint states: &quot F)rom at least 2003 to 2009, Defendants Yannai and Fusillo engaged in a scheme to coerce and fraudulently induce young women to travel to the United States from abroad to provide labor and services. Yannai also used this scheme to sexually abuse young women.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/01/27/43400.htm

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