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Black Man Enslaved by White Restaurant Owner Should be Awarded More Than $500K, Court Rules John Christopher Smith, who has intellectual disabilities, was forced to work at a South Carolina restaurant for over 100 hours a week without pay for five years Published 4 hours ago Google Maps A Black man with intellectual disabilities should be awarded more than $500,000 after he was enslaved for five years at a South Carolina restaurant, a court ruled. Bobby Paul Edwards, who is white, pleaded guilty in June 2018 to one count of forced labor for using "violence and other coercive means" t...

A federal court ruled last month that a Black man with intellectual disabilities who was enslaved for five years at a restaurant should be awarded double the amount of compensation from the manager, The Washington Post reported this week. Upon pleading guilty to a “forced labor charge” in 2018, 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison and directed by a court to repay John Christopher Smith $273,000 in “unpaid wages and overtime compensation at J&J Cafeteria.” Edwards exploited the 43-year-old Smith into working more than 100 hours a week with no pay, using va...

Court: South Carolina Black man made to work without pay entitled to $546K The defendant used violence and other coercive means to make the victim work more than 100 hours a week for no pay between 2009 and 2014, court records show. Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Published: 4:17 PM EDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 12:13 AM EDT May 5, 2021 RICHMOND, Va. — A federal appeals court has ruled that a Black man with intellectual disabilities who was forced to work more than 100 hours a week without pay in a South Carolina restaurant is entitled to double the amount of res...

For five years, a white restaurant manager forced a mentally disabled Black man to work over 100 hour work weeks with no pay. Recently, a South Carolina court found that the now-imprisoned restaurant manager needs to pay the man he enslaved over $500,000. In 2019, Restaurant manager, Bobby Paul Edwards, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after taking a guilty plea for his role in forcing John Christopher Smith, to work over 100 hours a week with no pay at  J&J Cafeteria. When Edwards was sentenced, he only had to pay Smith $273,000 in unpaid wages and overtime compensation. However, on Apr...

Essence A South Carolina judge has ruled that a former restaurant manager must pay an intellectually disabled Black man $546,000 after forcing him to work for more than 100 hours a week without paying him. According to the Post and Courier, J&J Cafeteria restaurant manager Bobby Paul Edwards, 56 is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to forcing John Christopher Smith, 43 to work at the South Carolina restaurant without pay from 2009 – 2014. Smith started working at the restaurant in 1990 at the tinder age of 12. According to reports Edwards started ma...