he charges as detailed graphically by the prosecution were horrific. India-born Mahendar Sabhnani, 51, and his Indonesia-born wife Varsha, 46, were a multi-millionaire couple who owned a perfume business, living in the upscale Long Island, NY, neighborhood of Muttontown. But beneath the calm of their expansive mansion lurked a bizarre and repulsive story of unimaginable cruelty and bestiality.

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The couple employed two Indonesian maids who for years bore the brunt of their perverse ways, according to the prosecution. At various times they were abused, starved, and tortured while being made to work 18-hour days.

The women said they had been beaten with brooms and umbrellas, slashed with knives, made to take freezing showers and climb stairs repeatedly. They were locked in small closets to hide them from visitors.