An au pair in the Washington, D.C., area says she was forced into involuntary servitude by her host family — a Saudi couple employed by the World Bank — claiming that the two denied her food, wages, or time off, forbade her from going outside without their permission, and threatened to have her deported if she told anyone about the horrific conditions she was enduring.
World Bank operations officer Samah Badawi and data visualization specialist Mohammed Manar El-Iriqsousi began abusing “Jane Doe,” as she is identified in court filings, the moment she arrived from Indonesia to take care of their two young children, according to a civil rights lawsuit first obtained by The Independent.
