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"Hollywood couple sentenced in maid 'slave' case"
This is awful! CLCK HERE to read the article accompanying this headline.
Hollywood couple sentenced in maid 'slave' case
A former top Hollywood studio lawyer and his wife were on Monday sentenced by a Los Angeles judge after admitting to mistreating their Filipino maid in a case of "modern-day slavery," a court heard.
US District Judge Dale Fischer ordered James Jackson, 53, a former vice-president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures to perform 200 hours of community service for admitting a charge of alien harboring.
Jackson's wife Elizabeth, 54, was given a three-year jail term after pleading guilty to a charge of forced labor.
In passing sentence, Fischer said Elizabeth Jackson had treated the victim, former schoolteacher Nena Ruiz, worse than her dog.
Ruiz was forced to eat three-day-old food and to sleep on a dog basket after working 18 hours a day. Over the course of several months' employment between 2001 and 2002 she was paid only 300 dollars.
"These defendants subjected their victim to what amounts to modern-day slavery," said Justice Department prosecutor Wan Kim after the Jacksons pleaded guilty in August last year.
In a related civil lawsuit, Ruiz said Elizabeth Jackson regularly slapped her and pulled her hair.
The Jacksons also threatened to turn her over to immigration authorities if she left them, Ruiz said. Ruiz finally fled the Jacksons after she was hit in the mouth with a water bottle in February 2002.
Elizabeth Jackson said in a letter read out in court on Monday that she took full responsibility for her actions.
"In my life I have always tried and strived to do the right thing," she said. "I failed in this case."
Defense lawyers argued against a jail sentence for Jackson, saying the couple had already suffered enough by being forced to declare bankruptcy.
However Fischer denied a request for home confinement, telling the court: "It seems she treated her dog much better than she treated her victim."
Ruiz won 825,000 dollars in damages from her former employers at a 2004 civil trial in Los Angeles.
maybe they knew they were gonna have to file for bankruptsy so they made a plan and hired a girl to act liek this all happened and they will split money 3 ways? hmmm
HA! Glad to hear they are enjoying prison time for that abuse. Honestly, using immigrants as slaves and thinking no one is going to say something. Dumb asses, now they have no money, no home (for any other immigrants to work in, mind you…) and they're serving time. Sucks to be you!
unbelievable!!!! assholes.
i hope one of them has to pick the soap up in the slammer
good for her!! at least she got some $$$ in the end. don't f-ck with the Pinoys!!!!
Why do most rich people suck balls?? I'm just sayin'.
justice is served:)
that's like the slave case in my town in muttontown, ny! these people had two slaves that were abused and forced to sleep in a closet under a staircase. one of the slaves eventually ran away and got help.
I'LL BE BRITNEY'S MAID SLAVE FOR A FEW WEEKS IF SHE BUYS ME A BENZ. I'LL PICK UP HE DORITOS BAG Y'ALL!
good on her for winning all that money! the poor woman… xxx
send those stupid kikes to my house, I'll put them to work 18 hours a day for 2 cents an hour, fuckin jews
Re: Sharon – YES! she should have gotten more. If she had been another white person that was employed by them and treated the same way, she would have gotten millions. It seems like she got a lot because no one is valuing her because she is an immigrant and white middle class people tend to demonize people of other cultures. why is her status less valuable than a white american's status. she is a woman, a human being and was tortured by this rich white couple. I am glad that she got a settlement and will probably not ever have to work in America ever again. Now she can live in her home country and take care of her family. you think women want to live their families and children and become maids and nurses in america for a pittance of pay. no, they do it because they come from poor countries and the promise of a small income that they can then remit back to their own country is the only hope that they have of surviving. Some countries economies are based on the remittance of women that leave their homeland and work overseas and send their earnings back home to support their families, especially the Phillipines.
That's hot!
Re: wolvie – That was real corny!!!! Booooooooooooooo………….
Another illegal alien accusing good americans of bad deeds–they lie so they can sue and get money and sympathy. GO HOME YOU STUPID FUCKERS
Re: smaile – Go Home–you're another one of those stupid fucking illeagal's trying to grease your way into America–well wipe my ass!!!
Filipino bitch probably deserved it.
Re: hotred – Once again. This was already said she was a documented worker. She was in the U.S. on a work visa.
Three day old food? MY GOD!!! She had to eat leftovers!!! Still, there's a special place in hell for lawyers and their douche wives who treat "servants" like shit. 200 hours of community service is bullshit. He'll never learn.
Re: Sheryl –
if YOU did your research you'd know that illegal immigrants aren't just "those mexicans" but people from europe and also south america…
Re: trish – Who gives a shit where they're from–they're all the same trash–throw em out like garbage
ROT IN JAIL BABY!
i think he ment fucked up for the servant not the employers
Those are pretty light sentences for such a heinous crime. Karma is a nasty bitch, and I'm sure she's going to bite those two in the ass. I'll bet a million dollars these scum voted for Bush.
who cares if your FIRST. this is disgusting, that poor lady i hope they get the same treatment in jail the stupid cow with all her money, clean your own house bitch like the rest of us.
Re: Keisha – i hope when you get a job that someone treats you the same way as her, its people like you who should be treated that way just for the fact that you think because she is filiponi she deserve's it. your disgusting
it's sad how people maltreat Filipinos, esp if my countrymen are just trying to feed our families back home. we are also human being who shouldn't be treated in a bad way.
Re: hateeveryoneequally –
They are not "white folks" but rather they are jewish.
This case was a sham. The ex-maid is a liar. An overzealous group out to make a name for themselves got hold of this woman, completely distorted the truth and attempted to ruin the lives of these people. It's sad that after all the lies and distortions the media has spread over the last 16 years, so many people are still willing to believe everything they read.
And, btw, for those claiming this woman was taken advantage of because she was a filipino immigrant, the media has neglected to mention that Elizabeth Jackson is also filipino, born and raised in the phillipines.
Re: mylo – thats what im saying. take one for the team bitches.
woahhh.
what fucking assholes. see, this is why i dont like white ppl (americans)
You cant all be first, and what color would nazis be other than white.
Re: I heart Perez –
ahahaha.
I bet you feel like a jackass, huh?
Re: wolvie – Whatever….get a life, idiot.
Re: Cri – I'm sorry, but I bet the Sony couple voted DEMOCRAT…hippocrits.
was she illegal here? was she deported? did she get to keep the settlement? this migration situation encourages assholes to keep slaves, I guess that's why the Bushes like it the way it is. I hope these douches keep being outed. I hope all illegals and legals and citizens etc know that rich fucks are not entitled to threaten you/us/anybody
This is so disgusting and shocking that these rich people could treat this woman like that I say lock her in jail and make her eat three day old food and then make her sleep on dog bed. Bloody bitch if she tried that on me I would have opened up a can of woopass on her and kicked her to my hometown of perth!!
well that's nice… some ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT has just made over half a million dollars when they shouldn't have even been in this country in the first place. go cry me a river… and lets get that fence up.
"ihateeveryone" u r a fucking dumbass, u racist ass fucker, ofcourse u would say there white… u dumbfuck… they where from india, r brazil someplace of that sorce…. but leave it to u, to make a racist remark, like we dont have enough racism, why dont u go ahead and through gas on the fire, u asshole
Re: kt – Uggggh….read the damn article
Wow so many people here have no clue how the nanny system works. You don't just pick up a nanny from way overseas and bring them to the US without any papers. Ms. Ruiz was here under guise of proper papers provided by these sick excuses for human beings. She's probably desperate for money to send home (the reason why there are so many filipinos working overseas) and they promised her decent wages so she stuck it out until she couldn't take it anymore. I'm sure the "bankruptcy" is a BS accountant lie and I doubt she'd see any of those damages. I just wonder at all you people just shouting ILLEGALs have no rights crap. I'm sure she's illegal now after those Jack$h*ts rescinded her papers and throughout this whole lawsuit. She wasn't illegal while she was working for these despicable people. They probably scared the crap out of her to prevent her from going to the authorities. When you're alone in a foreign environment, you're probably not in the most confident state of mind. It sickens me that these people got the proverbial slap on the wrist for what they did. I'm 100% positive Mrs. Jackson has no remorse and will probably treat hired help cruelly once this blows over a few years later.
what i think is bad is that someone who is here illegally was able to sue a legal citizen. kinda like the burgerlar sueing you after tripping over your skateboard. she shouldn't have even been in this country to begin with so tough shit.
they will really rot in hell!!!!!!!! Filipinos are known for being a good worker. They also need to treat a person as they want them to be treated!!!!!!!! you should be ashame
the article does not make it clear if she was ellegal or not but it sounds like it to me.
"The Jacksons also threatened to turn her over to immigration authorities if she left them, Ruiz said"
there are so many illegals here it would not be too hard to find one to work for you.
with the unemployment rate in this country we shouldn't be importing workers anyway. I don't care how difficult life is in their country, i don't want them coming here and messing with mine.
Re: Mary
Your a MORON! and it rhymes with your name. Don't you know how to read Idiot? The article said a filipina….. why would she go back to Mexico? MORON! she came from the Philippines! Mary Moron!
I googled Nena Ruiz and found an article from whole life times that the BITCH ELIZABETH JACKSON was also herself "…a native of the Philippines." The bitch did it to her own kind. Hope she gets what she deserves in jail.
Ignorant Mary fucker. Think IT (take note, IT, not he or she) is cool to give comments like that. The ENTITY is so dumb and shallow IT makes me wanna cry.
SLUT! omg!! Someone should slap that damn woman!! how dare her treat her maid like that!! What comes arounf goes around , douchebag! The Jacksons should be tarred and feathered!
Declaring bankruptcy is just a twisted legal way of remaining rich. They owe her a lot more than $825 000!
What the fuck? Strived to do the right thing? When the hell is making your Maid eat three day old food and live worse than a DOG DOING the right thing? Is this stupid bitch on crack? Ugh. People who take part in inhumanity like this should get the death sentence. I wanna see this whore fry. Filipino people are the most giving people on the face of the planet. How dare this Hollywood hag treat anyone like this.
Serves the motherf*&^ERS Right!!!
unbelievable.
Holy Crapola.
why the hell does everyone try to claim "first" on these fucking walls?! no one gives a damn if you were fucking first and you never are fucking first and its super annoying to scroll down and try to read ppl's comments but all there is to read is the word "first" repeated a million hundred times by a million stupid ppl.
FIRST!!
Muahaha, I love being first, it gives me this tingly feeling inside.
good the lady got paid well, she deserves it for being put through hell.
Coming from Hollywood 'bigwigs' it surprises me NOT.
f*ck the jackson, and to all caucasians who treat us like this !!!!
What sick fuckers. They should be kicked in the eye balls until they crack and eye juice comes out. Then people should cum in their eyes. Fucking sick cunts.