White Restaurant Manager Beat And Enslaved
Black Mentally Disabled Man For Years Forcing Him To Work Long
Hours For Free In South Carolina
June 15. 2018
Bobby Paul Edwards
Restaurant manager, Bobby Paul Edwards, 53,
has been arrested for beating and enslaving black mentally
disabled man, John Christopher Smith, whom he forced to work
100-hours per week for years at a restaurant in South
Carolina. Lawless slaveholder Edwards made racial slurs,
death threats and engaged in acts of intimidation against
Smith, to keep him working for free.
Edwards beat Smith with his fists and a belt
on a regular basis. Edwards also burned Smith with hot
tongs, when he did not work fast enough. He must have been
in such horrible pain. He forced Smith to live in a little
room behind the restaurant, so he could keep an eye on him,
while keeping him enslaved.
Edwards also isolated Smith from his
relatives, to continue this sick criminal abuse and
financial exploitation of a defenseless man. Forcing someone
to work for free, robbing them of their pay, is slavery and
human trafficking, which are criminal offenses. Edwards
conduct is worthy of life in prison for slavery, human
trafficking, assault, battery, kidnapping and making making
terroristic threats.
Edwards should also be forced under court
judgment to forfeit all his cash/assets for engaging in
slavery in modern times and robbing Smith of his pay for
years, which is disgraceful on both counts. The money should
go to repay the victim of his sick, evil crimes.
STORY SOURCE
South Carolina Restaurant Manager Beat Black Employee
for Years, Forced Him to Work Without Pay: Officials
Posted 11:52 AM, June 7, 2018, by CNN Wire,
Updated at 02:51PM, June 7, 2018 - For years, John
Christopher Smith suffered in silence as his manager at a
South Carolina restaurant physically abused him and forced
him to work over 100 hours a week without pay, federal
officials say.
Bobby Paul Edwards, 53, used violence,
threats and intimidation on the African-American employee
who worked at the eatery in Conway, according to the US
Justice Department. It said Edwards hurled racial epithets
at him, beat him with a belt, and hit him with pots and
pans. This week, Edwards pleaded guilty to one count of
forced labor in the incidents, which allegedly happened when
he managed the restaurant between 2009 and 2014.
Authorities said Smith had intellectual
disabilities, and was afraid of losing his job. At times,
Edwards, who’s white, would burn Smith’s bare neck with hot
tongs to make him work faster, federal authorities said.
Other times, he’d allegedly beat him with a belt and punch
him with his fists. “Human trafficking through forced labor
can happen on farms, in homes, and as today’s case shows —
in public places, such as restaurants,” Acting Assistant
Attorney General John Gore said Tuesday.
“Edwards abused an African-American man with
intellectual disabilities by coercing him to work long hours
in a restaurant without pay. Combating human trafficking by
forced labor is one of the highest priorities of this
Justice Department.” Edwards admitted to using “violence,
threats, isolation and intimidation” to force Smith to work
despite the ill treatment, officials said...
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