Fort Worth woman who forced two unauthorized immigrants to work w/o pay said she was 'voice of God'
A federal jury convicted a Fort Worth woman Friday of harboring two unauthorized immigrants and forcing them to work for her without pay for more than 13 years, officials say.
Olga Sandra Murra, 64, brought the two women to the United States from Mexico illegally in 1997 and 1998, the U.S. Justice Department said. She then coerced them into working for her by maintaining control over their identification documents and telling the women she was the "voice of God on Earth."
Murra forced them to work for the house-cleaning business she ran in Fort Worth and El Paso, said a spokeswoman for John Parker, U.S. attorney for the North District of Texas. The women also prepared meals for her and maintained her residence as well.
The women were not paid for this work; any money they earned cleaning houses was handed over to Murra. One of the women briefly worked for McDonald's in 2001 and Wal-Mart in 2003 using a false ID, and all of her paychecks were surrendered to Murra.
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