Woman Who Kept Girls As Slaves Fails In Attack On ‘Trauma Bond’ Testimony

Mealey's (January 17, 2018, 12:22 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 15 affirmed the guilty verdicts and six-year prison sentence for a woman who kept illegal Mexicans in her home, where she abused them and forced them to perform slave labor, after finding that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing an expert to testify about “trauma bonds” between abusers and victims (United States of America v. Olga Sandra Murra, No. 17-10117, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 906)....