family allegedly kept a starving Indian woman as their house slave for eight years.Paramedics who burst into the upmarket Melbourne home in 2015 found the woman emaciated and incoherent, lying in her own urine on the bathroom floor.The woman, in her 50s, was taken to hospital where she was found to weigh just 40kg.
She said she had been surviving primarily on tea and occasional bowls of rice.Six years on, the husband and wife charged with enslaving her - both well-respected members of the Mount Waverley community - have pleaded not guilty at a trial at the Supreme Court of Victoria.Identified only by the initials KK and KK, the couple met the woman while visiting the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the court heard.She came to Australia to work.
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