Trafficking into forced labour in Kansas.

In Kansas City, USA, prosecutors have charged five people with allegedly trafficking eight Russian students from Voronozh, Russia. The students were offered a student work program where they could earn up to US$10,000, but when they arrived they were allegedly held as virtual slaves, and forced to work as drivers for the Frosty Treats ice cream truck company. The students are said to have worked 13 hour days, and earned as little as 87 cents an hour. They were allegedly cut off from all forms of communication and threatened if they tried to leave. The students had paid $US 2,500 to come on the scheme. To read more about this and related subjects, please visit The Kansas City Channel by clicking here.