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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (8902)	6/30/2006 1:41:20 PM
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Irvine pair guilty in child slave case (involves Egyptian nationals in CA) The Orange County Register ^ \| June 30, 2006 \| RACHANEE SRISAVASDI ocregister.com A former husband and wife admitted Thursday to forcing a 10-year-old Egyptian girl to work as a domestic servant in Irvine in one of the highest-profile human-trafficking cases in Orange County. Abdelnasser Eid Youssef Ibrahim, 45, and Amal Ahmed Ewis-abd Motelib, 43, admitted bringing the girl, now 16, from Egypt in 2000, then making her work as a servant to their family of seven from August 2000 to April 2002. They each pleaded guilty to four felonies: conspiracy, holding a person in involuntary servitude through force or coercion, obtaining labor through unlawful force or coercion, and harboring an illegal immigrant. They were scheduled to go to trial today in federal court. Instead, they will be sentenced Oct. 23. They expect up to three-year sentences, but a judge could send each of them to prison for up to 50 years. .... The girl is one of 53 human-trafficking victims in Orange County, according to Bob Jones, with St. Anselm's Cross-Cultural Community Center, a member of the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force. Most of the female victims who can apply for green cards choose to stay in this country. The girl has decided to stay. She is a ward of Orange County Superior Court and is living in foster care locally. She is taking summer school classes and aspires to attend college, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Keenan said. She has not been back to Egypt and doesn't want to return, he added.