ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — Three males held a pupil from India captive over the course of a number of months and compelled him to work and carry out menial duties, then viciously beat him when he did not full the chores to their satisfaction, a Missouri prosecutor stated Thursday.

St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney Joseph McCulloch introduced expenses towards Venkutesh Sattaru, 35; Nikhil Penmatsa, 27; and Sravan Penumetcha, 23. All three face counts associated to human trafficking, kidnapping and different crimes. They are jailed with out bond and do not have attorneys listed but.

The 20-year-old sufferer is hospitalized with a damaged nostril, damaged ribs and bones in his palms and toes, and extreme accidents from being punched, stomped on and crushed with pipes and a wire that left him scarred “from the top of his head literally to the bottom of his feet,” McCulloch stated.

Authorities stated the sufferer is the cousin of Sattaru, who owns an data expertise firm. The pupil got here to the U.S. a few yr in the past to attend school however as an alternative was compelled to work on the firm and carry out different duties demanded by the suspects, McCulloch stated.

He was stored at numerous instances within the basements of three houses with out satisfactory meals and water, and with no lavatory, authorities stated.

The sufferer was found by police after a neighbor of one of many houses within the small rural city of Defiance, Missouri, requested police to carry out a wellness test. As officers have been on the house this week, the sufferer “ran out of the house yelling, screaming for help,” McCulloch stated.

Charging paperwork say that the sufferer informed police he feared he could be killed if he informed anybody concerning the abuse as a result of Sattaru is rich with deep connections in India, and the opposite males are also rich.

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