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Restaurant Manager Jailed For Exploiting Employee (US)

hawley · 2021-05-07 21:51:53

John Christopher Smith was forced to work at a cafeteria in Conway without pay for years. His manager, Bobby Edwards, pleaded guilty to forced labor in 2018 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his abuse of Smith, a Black man who has intellectual disabilities. A US District Court judge in 2019 ordered Edwards, who…

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John Christopher Smith was forced to work at a cafeteria in Conway without pay for years. His manager, Bobby Edwards, pleaded guilty to forced labor in 2018 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for his abuse of Smith, a Black man who has intellectual disabilities.
A US District Court judge in 2019 ordered Edwards, who is White, to pay Smith around $273,000 in restitution, which represented Smith's unpaid wages and overtime.
Smith feared Edwards, who once dipped metal tongs into grease and pressed them into Smith's neck when Smith failed to quickly restock the buffet with fried chicken, the ruling says. Edwards also whipped Smith with his belt, punched him and beat him with kitchen pans, leaving Smith "physically and psychologically scarred," according to the ruling.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/03/us/south-carolina-man-forced-work-restitution-doubled-trnd/?iid=ob_mobile_article_footer_expansion

Hopefully he will serve the full sentence. What an absolutely appalling way to treat a fellow human being.

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