Husband and wife, Herri Nasution and Mariska Trisanti, held two undocumented women as domestic servants from 1996 through 2000. The women were brought from Indonesia to Los Angeles on tourist visas. The victims were promised work as housekeepers and domestic servants, but when they arrived in the US, Defendants forced them to work for at least 17 hours a day, seven days a week, with no pay. Trisanti confiscated their passports and kept them at the house through threats and physical abuse. The defendants also threatened that the women would be arrested and put in jail if they tried to escape. In 2000, Trisanti took a trip to Indonesia and left the women at home with Nasution, they took that opportunity to escape.