Griffith said his boss told him to hide underage workers, reports the Associated Press. One of those worker testified earlier that he worked in the plant while in high school and then full-time until the immigration raid in 2008 that detained 389 illegal immigrants. Another child laborer testified that he injured his hand on a conveyor belt in the plant’s chicken line. Supervisors told him to go back to work after his hand was bandaged, and he was given a glove.
Rubashkin was scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in federal court on 86 counts of financial fraud, but U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade on Monday delayed sentencing in the federal case until June 22 because Rubashkin's state trial is expected to last the rest of the week.