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OIG initiated an investigation based upon a request for assistance from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Miami Field Office, in a matter involving involuntary servitude.  The case involved a Haitian national who was taken from an orphanage as a minor and trafficked to the United States to be used as a domestic servant and not paid for her services.  This activity occurred over a six year period until the victim, who did not receive proper schooling and was held in inhuman conditions, escaped from her employers.  OIG assisted the investigation by obtaining the victim?s visa records as well as the passport records of the subjects.  The photographs in the passport applications were used by the FBI to help the victim identify the subjects.  On April 19, 2007, both subjects were indicted on three counts, including charges of forced labor and harboring illegal aliens.  The subjects were arrested by the FBI the following day.