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VA Family Gets Prison Time For Forcing Pakistani Woman Into 'Modern-Day Equivalent Of Slavery'
Three people in Virginia will get a taste of their own medicine after being sentenced for a years-long conspiracy to force a Pakistani woman who married into the family into forced labor, federal officials announced.
Midlothian residents Zahida Aman, 80, was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, Mohammed Rehan Chaudhri, 48, to 10 years in federal prison, and Mohammad Nauman Chaudhri, 55, to five years in federal prison for their roles in conspiring to compel the domestic labor of a woman for more than a decade.
According to federal prosecutors, in 2002, the victim married Aman’s son, wh…
