Saudi princess captured in California human trafficking test

A Saudi princess was accused Wednesday of human trafficking for purportedly holding a down home specialist against her will and driving her to work at an Orange County condo, prosecutors said. 

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas recognized 42-year-old Meshael Alayban as a Saudi princess who was accused of one tally of human trafficking. Provided that sentenced, she confronts up to 12 years in jail. 

Alayban was captured after a Kenyan lady convey a suitcase waved to a transport Tuesday and told a traveler she accepted she was a human trafficking chump. The traveler encouraged her contact police, who sought the Irvine condominium where Alayban and her family were staying, powers said. 

The 30-year-old lady told powers she was employed in Kenya in 2012 and her international ID was taken from her on landing in Saudi Arabia. She was compelled to work inordinate hours and was paid less than she was guaranteed and not permitted to leave, powers said. 

"This is not an agreement debate," Rackauckas told the court throughout a safeguard listening to Wednesday evening, comparing the case to bondage. "This is holding somebody hostage against their will." 

An Orange County judge set safeguard at $5 million for Alayban and needed her to submit to GPS screening. He likewise banned her from leaving the region without former approval. 

Alayban did not show up in court in Santa Ana. Her lawyer, Paul Meyer, said the case was a contractual question and contended his customer shouldn't be doled out a ransomlike safeguard exclusively in light of the fact that she was rich. He said she had been setting out to the U.s. since she was a kid, possessed lands here and had given her pledge she might address the charges. 

"This is a down home work hours debate," he said. 

Rackauckas had requested from the judge to deny safeguard Alayban or set it at $20 million, colloquialism it was implausible any sum might ensure a Saudi princess might appear in court. He said the Saudi office had recently offered to blanket $1 million in safeguard at first set after her capture. 

Police say Alayban's family ventured out to the U.s. in May with the chump and four ladies from the Philippines. 

The chump had marked a two-year contract with a business org ensuring she might be paid $1,600 a month to work eight hours a day, five days a week. However beginning in March 2012, she was compelled to cook, clean and do other family errands for a day, seven days a week, and was paid just $220, prosecutors said. 

Prosecutors say the chump's international ID was taken from her, and she wasn't permitted to come back to Kenya. In May, she was carried to the U.s. what's more given her international ID just to pass through traditions, the region solicitor's office said. 

Once here, she was compelled to have a tendency to no less than eight individuals in four rooms in the same Irvine complex, washing china, cooking, cleaning, doing laundry and pressing, the workplace said. 

The other four ladies left the home voluntarily with police once powers arrived. They told police they were fascinated by being free, said Irvine police head David Maggard Jr. 

No charges have been indexed in association with their circumstances. 

Police said there are no implications of physical ill-use. 

It is the initially constrained work case got Orange County under a human trafficking vote drive passed a year ago by California voters, and it is almost always researched by neighborhood police and elected movement powers. 

Claude Arnold, uncommon operator responsible for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's country security examinations in Los Angeles, said he trusted the case might urge other trafficking victimized individuals to confide in law authorization. 

Alayban is situated to be charged in court Thursday. She is one of the wives of Saudi Prince Abdulrahman receptacle Nasser container Abdulaziz al Saud, the area solicitor's office said.