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  A South Carolina man who was forced to work over 100 hours every week for years without pay and subjected to verbal and physical abuse was supposed to receive close to US$273,000 in restitution after his former manager pleaded guilty. But that initial amount was too low, an appellate court ruled in April. The man should have received more than double that amount -- closer to $546,000 -- from the manager to account for federal labor laws, according to the ruling. John Christopher Smith was forced to work at a cafeteria in Conway without pay for years. His manager, Bobby Edwards, pleaded ...

A judge ruled that a former South Carolina restaurant manager who forced a Black man with intellectual disabilities to work more than 100 hours a week without pay, owes the former employee more than $500,000.

A Black man who was enslaved by his white boss for 5 years should be given $546,000 in compensation, a court ruled. INSIDER 2 hrs ago salarshani@businessinsider.com (Sarah Al-Arshani) © J. Reuben Long Detention Center via AP This undated photo provided by the J. Reuben Long Detention Center in Conway, S.C shows Bobby Paul Edwards. J. Reuben Long Detention Center via AP In 2019, Bobby Paul Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison for enslaving an employee. Edwards coerced John Christopher Smith into working 100 hours a week without pay. An appellate court recently rul...

Bobby Paul Edwards is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for enslaving John Christopher Smith from 2009 to 2014. A former South Carolina restaurant manager has been ordered to pay more than $546,000 in restitution to an employee with intellectual disabilities that he put to work for more than 100 hours a week with no pay. Bobby Paul Edwards, 56 is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for forced labor.

Black man enslaved by White restaurant manager should be awarded more than $500,000, court says Lateshia Beachum Bobby Paul Edwards of Conway, S.C., on Sept. 22. (Horry County Sheriff’s Department) A Black man with intellectual disabilities who was enslaved for five years at a restaurant in Conway, S.C., should be awarded double the amount of restitution from the White man now imprisoned for the crime, according to a recent court ruling. As part of his 2019 guilty plea to a forced labor charge, Bobby Paul Edwards, 56, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered by ...