by Melissa Koeing and Ross Ibbetson for Daily Mail
A modern-day slavery ring has been busted in Georgia where workers were raped, kidnapped and imprisoned in squalid camps, according to prosecutors.
The crooks raked in more than $200 million by luring in over 100 desperate migrants from Mexico and Central America to the US, a federal indictment says.
At least two people died in the brutal conditions that saw workers forced to handpick onions at gunpoint for just 20 cents per bucket in sweltering heat, and another was repeatedly kidnapped and raped.
They were kept in squalid camps surrounded by electric fences or cramped living quarters, including dirty trailers with raw sewage leaks.
The migrants also reportedly had their passports and documents taken from them to deter them from escaping.
Two dozen members of the alleged gang have now been indicted on mail fraud, forced labor, money laundering and witness tampering charges following a three-year, multi-agency federal probe known as ‘Operation Blooming Onion.’
Only two of the defendants are described as South Georgia business owners – most are contractors and recruiters…
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