ENGLISH DEYEA NEWS

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | HAMMOND, Indiana - Two men took a 16-year-old girl from New York to Indiana and subjected her to sexual abuse, forced labor and beatings during a six-month ordeal, federal prosecutors said.

Yan Niang Soe, 22, and Johnathan A. Sullivan, 23, were charged with forced labor and trafficking with respect to forced labor, and more charges could come later, authorities said.

On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered them held in temporary custody until they are transferred to New York, which has jurisdiction.

Authorities say the two took the girl from Buffalo, N.Y., where she lives, to Indiana, where she was repeatedly raped and forced to cook and clean for one of the men and baby-sit for the other man's children.

The ordeal ended when another man allowed her to use his cell phone and she summoned a friend. She was reunited with her parents last month, authorities said.

Soe, who was born in Myanmar and is not a U.S. citizen, met her in 2007 and became enamored with her, according to an FBI account. The girl, also an immigrant, knew Soe's sister, the affidavit said.