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Melbourne couple accused of keeping woman enslaved for eight years faces court
An Indian woman who was allegedly kept as a slave in a suburban Melbourne home for eight years weighed just 40 kilograms when paramedics discovered her in a pool of her own urine, a court has heard.
Key points:
- The accused husband and wife have pleaded not guilty
- The woman visited Australia twice before allegedly being kept against her will on the third visit in 2007
- She was admitted to intensive care at Box Hill Hospital after collapsing in 2015
The woman’s alleged captors, a husband and wife from Mount Waverley, appeared today in Victoria’s Supreme Court.
The accused, who can only be referred to by the initials KK and KK, have been charged with possessing and using the woman as a slave between 2007 and 2015.
Both have pleaded not guilty to…
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