South Carolina Slaveholder Arrested. Yes, You Read That Correctly
… and your jaw is going to hit the floor when you read
what he does for a living:
The president of a South Carolina Bible college
was charged last week with essentially treating foreign students as
slaves by forcing them to perform work for little or no pay.
According to The Sun News, federal prosecutors filed a
criminal complaint against Cathedral Bible College President Reginald
Wayne Miller, accusing him of forced labor.
To our surprise, law enforcement and judicial officials are taking this case
very seriously:
[Miller] is not allowed to set foot on the college campus
in Marion or communicate with any of the school’s current or former
foreign students as an investigation continues into allegations that
Miller threatened to cancel foreign students’ visas if they did not work
long hours for little pay.
Those terms are part of a $250,000 secured bond
that Magistrate Judge Thomas Rogers set for Miller during a detention
hearing Friday in federal court. In addition, Miller will be on home
detention and will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device.
“I don’t think we’ve identified all of the potential victims yet,”
said Carrie Fisher, the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case.
Fisher said some victims may have already left the country and some may
be former students who have yet to come forward. “Our investigation just
started this week.”
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