Woman Gets 10 Years for Slavery

This is interesting.

(Melbourne, Australia) An Australian court sentenced a woman to 10 years in prison on Friday for making five Thai women work as sex slaves in a brothel.

Tang Wei, 44, is the first person in Australia to be found guilty by a jury of possessing sex slaves, under federal anti-slavery laws introduced in 1999.

During the eight-week trial at the Victorian County Court, the prosecution said the five women were brought to Australia with the promise they would be able to work legally in the sex trade.

Without papers and unable to speak the English language, the women were locked into slavery. But, thankfully, Australian legislators made slavery illegal seven years ago.