The victim, a Chinese national, was recruited by defendants in China, and entered the United States with a B1/B2 visa, which she obtained upon defendants' instruction and advice. Once in the United States, defendant Ding confiscated the victim's passport, visa, and other documents and forced the victim to work without pay as a live-in domestic servant. Ding also maintained control over the victim through physical abuse, and by threatening to report her to law enforcement. To avoid detection by law enforcement, defendants instructed the victim not to leave the house. The victim was forced to work for the defendants from approximately April 2008, when she arrived in the United States, to April 2009, at which point she was rescued by local law enforcement.
Wei Wei Liang and Bo Shen, Ping's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, were convicted on related charges of illegally harboring the victim.