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Newark Hair Salon Owner Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking |
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Newark hair-braiding salon owner pleads guilty to human trafficking, forced labor
by Joe Ryan/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday March 18, 2009, 12:35 PM
An immigrant from the West African nation of Togo pleaded guilty today to working with his mother to smuggle women from their homeland to work without pay at hair-braiding salons they owned in Newark and East Orange.
Dereck Hounakey, 32, spoke softly as he acknowledged to U.S. District Court Judge Jose Linares that he helped run a human trafficking ring that investigators equated to modern-day slavery. Hounakey said the girls were forbidden to have boyfriends and worked up to 16 hours a day, seven days a week.
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