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Friday, July 22, 2005

Group accused of forcing Honduran women to work in New Jersey bars as slaves
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Women as young as 14 were smuggled into the United States from rural Honduran villages and put to work in three northern New Jersey bars, drinking and dancing with customers to repay the smugglers, who beat the women if they objected, according to a federal indictment handed up Thursday.

 



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