Brookfield couple re-sentenced for enslaving maid




June 9, 2009 5:15 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AP) - A husband and wife from southeast Wisconsin have each been sentenced to six years in prison for forcing an illegal immigrant to be their maid for 19 years.

Jefferson N. Calimlim Sr. and his wife, Elnora, were initially sentenced in 2006 to 4-year prison terms each. The two doctors were re-sentenced Tuesday in Washington, D.C. after an appeals court found legal errors in the original sentencing.

The Calimlims were convicted of bringing the woman from the Philippines when she was 19 and forcing her to work in their Brookfield home under threat of violence.

During the original trial, the defense argued that the woman had agreed to the working conditions. They said she knew her situation here was better than the one she faced back home.


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