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A South Carolina man with intellectual disabilities was forced to work over 100 hours every week for years without pay and subjected to verbal and physical abuse. Now the court system says he's due more than half a million dollars.
Along with abuse, the manager forced the intellectually disabled Black man to work for more than 100 hours a week without paying him.
Updated: 6:57 PM EDT May 4, 2021 After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without pay in a South Carolina restaurant, his manager was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution.But a federal appeals court recently ruled the man is entitled to double that amount under federal labor laws.A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a U.S. District Court judge erred when he failed to include an additional $273,000 as “liquidated damages” in his or...
Published May 04. 2021 10:31PM By DENISE LAVOIE, Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — After a Black man with intellectual disabilities was enslaved, beaten and forced to work more than 100 hours a week without pay in a South Carolina restaurant, his manager was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $273,000 in restitution. But a federal appeals court recently ruled the man is entitled to double that amount under federal labor laws. A three-judge panel of the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that a U.S. District Court judge erred when he failed to include an additional $...
*A white restaurant manager in Conway, South Carolina has been ordered by a court to pay back twice the restitution owed to the Black man he enslaved for five years. John Christopher Smith, a Black man with an intellectual disability, was forced to work for five years without pay at the J&J Cafeteria managed by 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards. A court ruled on April 21 that Edwards, who is in prison for the crime, will pay Smith double for unpaid wages and overtime. Bobby Paul Edwards (L) and John Christopher Smith According to The Washington Post, Edwards pled guilty in 2019 to forcing S...