Giving ZEN a bad name:
A Buddhist monk and his family treated their housekeeper as a "slave" - imprisoning her in their Queens homes and threatening death if she tried to escape, a shocking new lawsuit claims.
The housekeeper, Oak-Jin Oh, 60, claims the monster monk, Soo Bok Choi, and his relatives turned her life into a living hell, The New York Times reported Sunday.
In court papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court, Oh says Choi's clan restricted her from venturing outside, deprived her of medical care when she was ill and rarely gave her a bed to sleep in, The Times reported.
The family, who helped Oh slip into the U.S. from Korea 12 years ago, threatened to kill her if she tried to escape or report her situation to authorities, the suit says.
Oh claims she agreed to work for the family for $1,200 a month. But after arriving in the U.S. in 1998, Oh was stripped of her passport and regularly forced to work 14-hour days or more at the Choi's homes in Elmhurst, Little Neck, Bayside, Flushing and Whitestone.
A Buddhist monk and his family treated their housekeeper as a "slave" - imprisoning her in their Queens homes and threatening death if she tried to escape, a shocking new lawsuit claims.
The housekeeper, Oak-Jin Oh, 60, claims the monster monk, Soo Bok Choi, and his relatives turned her life into a living hell, The New York Times reported Sunday.
In court papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court, Oh says Choi's clan restricted her from venturing outside, deprived her of medical care when she was ill and rarely gave her a bed to sleep in, The Times reported.
The family, who helped Oh slip into the U.S. from Korea 12 years ago, threatened to kill her if she tried to escape or report her situation to authorities, the suit says.
Oh claims she agreed to work for the family for $1,200 a month. But after arriving in the U.S. in 1998, Oh was stripped of her passport and regularly forced to work 14-hour days or more at the Choi's homes in Elmhurst, Little Neck, Bayside, Flushing and Whitestone.
