The depths of the depravity of the wealthy Long Island couple who were arrested earlier this year when it was discovered that the pair were keeping slaves in their posh Central Islip home were revealed in a recent court appearance. From Fox News:

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A servant who worked for a millionaire couple charged with modern-day slavery testified Monday in excruciating detail about the punishment she says she endured for minor transgressions such as sleeping late.

Samirah, an immigrant from Indonesia, said she was forced to walk naked from the servants’ room to the kitchen and to eat 100 chili peppers, followed by six spoons of chili powder mixed with salt water. She said she vomited after eating the peppers and was told to eat the vomit.

The testimony came at the trial of Varsha Mahender Sabhnani and her husband, Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, who run a worldwide perfume business out of their home on the north shore of Long Island.

Prosecutors say the couple severely abused Samirah and another Indonesian woman, Enung, who were brought to the United States to work as housekeepers, then held against their will and repeatedly beaten and starved.

Samirah testified that the alleged abuse she suffered was for such misdeeds as sleeping late and eating from the trash “because I wasn’t given food.”

“I said, `Mrs., just send me home to Indonesia,”‘ Samirah said.

Defense attorneys contend the housekeepers engaged in witchcraft and may have abused themselves as part of an Indonesian self-mutilation ritual — an assertion Samirah denied.

Samirah previously introduced the subject of black magic into the trial when she claimed that Varsha Sabhnani had concocted a spell that led to the death of one of Samirah’s sons in Indonesia.

On Monday, Samirah stood up, looking agitated and waving her hands, as she demonstrated how she was stabbed. She also got down on her knees in front of jurors to show how she scrubbed floors three times every day.

In exchange for the work, the prosecution says $100 a month was sent to a relative in Indonesia. Samirah said she never received any money of her own.

The case broke last May when concerned employees at a Dunkin’ Donuts called police after Samirah, 51, wandered into their store, muttering and looking injured.

Before the day was over, she was being treated in a hospital and authorities had a warrant to search the Sabhnani home, where they found Enung hiding in a basement closet.

If convicted, the couple could face 40 years in prison.

Though the religion of the couple has never been officially confirmed, the case is similar to reported incidents of involuntary servitude and abuse of domestics in Muslim societies.

Islam and slavery are inextricable linked, and this case has all the hallmarks of modern Islamism. The defense claims of witchcraft being practiced by the victims (as if that would excuse the barbarity) is also a feature in modern Islamist slave cases, and persecution of maids and domestics for “sorcery” have become common in places like Saudi Arabia. From the State Departments 2002 report on International Religious Freedom:

Magic is widely believed in and sometimes practiced, often in the form of fortune-telling and swindles; however, under Shari’a, the practice of magic is regarded as the worst form of polytheism, an offense for which no repentance is accepted and which is punishable by death. There are an unknown number of detainees held in prison on the charge of “sorcery,” including the practice of “black magic” or “witchcraft.” In a few cases, self-proclaimed “miracle workers” have been executed for sorcery involving physical harm or apostasy.

That this degenerate couple, who have so far flaunted justice by being granted house arrest in lieu of incarceration while waiting for trial (yet another reason I hate New York) thinks that by invoking the specter of Witchcraft they’ll garner sympathy for themselves is indicative of how dhimmified they believe Americans are, and in New York they may be right.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some N.Y. liberals claim it’s racist to judge these two by our standards, since in their culture abusing women and then accusing them of Witchcraft is acceptable. That’s what multiculturalism is after all. I’m glad Herman Slater isn’t alive to see this.

The evil cretin face only 40 years for their crimes, they’re getting off light if they get the maximum.

I say they should be hung.