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Washington Post
Human trafficking victim, forced to work 10 years for no pay, awarded $8 million by federal judge
by Tom Jackman
A woman who was trafficked for 10 years as an unpaid laborer in various cities across the United States has been awarded nearly $8 million in damages by a federal judge in Kansas, believed to be the largest trafficking-related verdict in U.S. history.
Kendra Ross, now 27, said she was victimized by a group originally called the United Nation of Islam, which in 1978 split from the Nation of Islam headed by Louis Farrakhan. The group later changed its name to The Value Creators, with headquarters in Kansas City, Kan., and business and residential properties in seven other cities around the country.
For ten years, Ross was forced to work in the group’s bakeries or restaurants and live in its homes, was separated from her mother at age 12 and ordered to marry another group member at 20, a judge in Kansas City, Kan., found. She was also shipped against her will from Kansas City to Atlanta, then to Newark, Harlem, Tennessee and Ohio before escaping from the group at age 21, her lawsuit stated.
The Value Creators is headed by Royall Jenkins, who did not return messages seeking comment. Jenkins allegedly issued strict orders governing every aspect of his group members’ lives, from where they lived and worked to how they spoke, what they ate and whom they married. The members were denied proper health care and children were educated in the group’s uncertified schools, Ross alleged. Jenkins filed one jumbled document in the case but otherwise did not respond to the suit, and a default judgment was entered against him.
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Jenkins, the leader of both the United Nation of Islam and The Value Creators, has said that around 1978, he was abducted by angels or scientists, escorted through the galaxy in a spaceship, informed that he was “The Supreme Being” and instructed on how to govern Earth, according to Ross’s lawsuit. One of his first acts upon returning to Earth was to separate from the Nation of Islam, and he reportedly instructed his followers to refer to him as “Allah on Earth,” “Allah in Person” or “The Supreme Being,”
Jenkins had at least 13 wives and 20 children around the country,
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