'forced to work at egg farms'
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Over a period of four months in 2014, however, HHS placed a number of
UACs in the hands of a ring of human traffickers who forced them to work on egg
farms in and around Marion, Ohio, leading to a July 2015 federal criminal
indictment. According to the indictment, the minor victims were forced to work at
egg farms in Marion and other location for six or seven days a week, twelve hours
per day.10 The traffickers repeatedly threatened the victims and their families with
physical harm, and even death, if they did not work or surrender their entire
paychecks.11 The indictment alleges that the defendants “used a combination of
threats, humiliation, deprivation, financial coercion, debt manipulation, and
monitoring to create a climate of fear and helplessness that would compel [the
victims’] compliance.”1