An Italian Consulate clerk and his wife have been indicted by a grand jury after being accused last year of abusing their Brazilian nanny.Giuseppe and Kesia Penzato hired the woman as a domestic servant in 2009, but then forced her to work longer hours and withheld her pay, according to the indictment, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
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For three months in 2009, a Brazilian woman claims she was beaten and assaulted, overworked and barely fed after being lured to San Francisco by an Italian Consulate employee and his wife to keep house and care for their young children.
When she complained to the couple, she says the couple told her they were immune from prosecution and that the laws of the United States did not apply to them.
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An employee at the Italian Consulate and his wife have been accused of allegedly holding a Brazilian woman as a slave at their San Francisco home.
Giuseppe Penzato, 55, and Kesia Penzato, 33, were arrested and charged in federal court Friday with forced labor. Giuseppe Penzato, an administrative clerk at the consulate, was also accused of allegedly taking and refusing to return the woman’s passport.
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