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Alleged slavery victim's son says mother was threatened

The son of one of the Indonesian woman allegedly enslaved by a Muttontown couple said yesterday he stopped pleading for his mother's release after a relative of one of the accused threatened her life.

Leo Dwinanto, 28, the son of the alleged victim named Samirah, testified in U.S. District Court in Central Islip that a woman whom he identified as Mrs. Joti, the mother of Varsha Sabhnani,...

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