A Burlington County woman is headed to prison for forcing two victims to perform domestic labor and childcare in her home under threats of violence and abuse.
Bolaji Bolarinwa of Moorestown Sentenced
51-year-old Bolaji Bolarinwa of Moorestown was previously found guilty of two counts of forced labor, one count of alien harboring for financial gain, and two counts of document servitude following a two-week trial in Camden federal court.
She was sentenced to 45 months, or almost four years, behind bars on Friday.
Horrific Abuse
Federal authorities say from December 2015 to October 2016, Bolarinwa, who was originally from Nigeria but living in New Jersey as a U.S. citizen, recruited two victims to come to the United States and then coerced them to perform domestic labor and childcare services for her children through physical harm, threats, isolation, constant surveillance, and psychological abuse.
Bolarinwa engaged in that conduct knowing that one of the victims was in the country illegally.
Once the first victim arrived in the United States in December 2015, Bolarinwa confiscated her passport and coerced her through threats of physical harm to her and her daughter, verbal abuse, isolation, and constant surveillance to compel her to work every day, around-the-clock, for nearly a year…