Ah, Texas, land of opportunity, for good or ill:

A US federal judge sentenced a Texas couple Friday for forcing a widowed Nigerian mother of six to serve in domestic servitude, holding her as a slave for over eight years.[…]

Upon the woman’s arrival in Arlington, Texas, Emmanuel and Ngozi Nnaji allegedly confiscated her passport, isolated her in their home and forced her to work long hours with virtually no pay.

Court documents also showed that Emmanuel Nnaji, 50, sexually assaulted the victim and that the couple refused to grant her request to return to Nigeria.

This woman was saved by a Catholic priest. What I want to know is where were her neighbors and local law enforcement? These slave owners didn’t live out in the middle of nowhere, they lived in Arlington a suburb of Dallas-Ft. Worth, and famous for a baseball stadium George Bush conned his fellow Texans into building there on the taxpayer’s dime.

Didn’t anyone have a clue that something was very wrong about this “arrangement” at some point before 8 years passed? Hell I thought only organized crime, US corporations overseas and wealthy Saudis did this sort of thing.

Question for Tea Partiers: Isn’t one of the consequences of less and less government a greater risk of human rights abuses like slavery? Just asking …

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