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A former restaurant manager in South Carolina has been ruled to pay an enslaved worker more than $500,000 in damages after he forced the intellectually challenged black man to work for more than 100 hours a week unpaid. Bobby Paul Edwards, 56, is currently serving his 10-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the forced labor charges in 2019. Back then, he was ordered by the court to pay $273,000 worth of unpaid wages to John Christopher Smith. The amount also included unpaid overtime compensation at the J&J cafeteria. However, according to The Hill, on April 21, 2012, the Court of Ap...

Article bookmarked Don't show me this message again✕ John Christopher Smith ( (ABC 15 News)) A Black man who was “effectively enslaved” by his white manager should be paid $546,000 (£394,000) for the five years he was forced to work without pay, a court has ruled. Bobby Paul Edwards coerced John Christopher Smith, who has a learning disability, to work for more than 100 hours a week at the J&J Cafeteria in Conway, South Carolina, between 2009 and 2014. Edwards was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2019 after being investigated by the FBI and was ordered to pay Mr Smith a little ove...

Black man enslaved by South Carolina restaurant manager is owed $546,000, court rules Jewel Wicker in Atlanta © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Chris Ryan/Getty Images A former restaurant manager serving 10 years in prison for effectively enslaving a man, forcing him to work more than 100 hours a week without pay, must double the restitution he pays to his former employee – to more than half a million dollars, a court ruled. © Photograph: Chris Ryan/Getty Images A recent appellate court ruling declared that Smith should receive double the $273,000 he was initially...

Federal Appeals Court Says White Restaurant Owner Who ‘Enslaved’ Intellectually Disabled Black Man Owes Double the Damages Initially Imposed Jerry Lambe © Provided by Law & Crime Bobby Paul Edwards mugshot A federal appeals court ruled that a wWhite restaurant owner who forced an intellectually disabled Black man into slave labor owes more than $500,000 in restitution, double the amount initially imposed by a lower district court. Bobby Paul Edwards, 56, pleaded guilty to a count of forced labor, was sentenced in 2019 to 10 years in prison and ordered by pay restitution...

By Cherranda Smith May 3, 2021 A white restaurant manager in Conway, South Carolina has been ordered to pay back twice the restitution owed to the Black man he enslaved for five years, a court ruled recently.  John Christopher Smith, a Black man with an intellectual disability, was forced to work at the J&J Cafeteria 56-year-old Bobby Paul Edwards managed for five years without pay. A court ruled on April 21 that Edwards, who is in prison for the crime, will pay Smith double for unpaid wages and overtime.  The Washington Post, Edwards pled guilty in 2019 to forcing Smith, 43, to work at t...