Harvard couple paid housekeeper $4 a week for more than 13 YEARS

The victim worked and lived in this house in Harvard, Massachusetts, for 13 years and four months, earning just $2500 the entire time.


A Boston couple with three children have pleaded guilty to the mistreatment of an immigrant they illegally smuggled into the U.S. to work around-the-clock as their housekeeper and nanny, paying her just $2,500 for 13 years of servitude.

At a federal court hearing in Boston on Wednesday, Martha Smalanskas, 48, and Richard Smalanskas, 49, who live in Harvard, Massachusetts, admitted to paying the victim at times just $35 a month, with authorities determining the family owed her roughly $301,000 under prevailing minimum wage - $298,500 less than what she actually earned.

The victim worked for the family from 1997 to 2011 - a total of 13 years and four months.

As a result, the couple will be forced to pay the woman - who was not identified but is believed to be about 35-years-old - $150,000 in restitution and serve a year of probation, under an agreement they reached with prosecutors, according to The Boston Globe.

SOURCE-DAILYM