A multimillionaire Muttontown couple has been arrested by federal agents on charges of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their Long Island home for the past five years and torturing one of them frequently for disobedience, according to officials…. The situation was uncovered after one of the woman managed to escape and was found wandering near a Dunkin Donuts in Syosset by employees who initially thought she was homeless, the papers said. When the employees attempted to communicate with her she kept slapping her face and saying what sounded to them like the word “master,” the papers added.
—“LI couple face charges for keeping, torturing slaves,” Robert E. Kessler, Newsday. Picture of suspect Varsha Mahender Sabhnani leaving Nassau County Police Headquarters by Howard Schnapp.