A white restaurant manager in South Carolina was sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving and torturing an African American cook
A white South Carolina restaurant manager has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving a black worker with an intellectual disability for five years, forcing him to work more than 100 hours a week without pay and frequently beating him with a belt, the Justice Department said Thursday.
In addition to the prison sentence, Edwards was required to pay the worker, John Christopher Smith, more than $500,000 in damages, including $272,000 in the back pay he never received. Prosecutors say Smith, who is described as having a"mild cognitive impairment" began working at J&J cafeteria as a dishwasher in 1990 at the age of 12.
Edwards used"violence, threats of violence, verbal abuse, and threats of taking to jail," in order to compel him to keep working at J&J, according to the court documents.
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