Editing Child labour (section)

===Meatpacking===
{{see also|Packers Sanitation Services illegal employment of children}}
In early August 2008, [[Iowa]] Labour Commissioner David Neil announced that his department had found that [[Agriprocessors]], a [[kosher]] [[meatpacking]] company in [[Postville, Iowa|Postville]] which had recently been raided by [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]], had employed 57 minors, some as young as 14, in violation of state law prohibiting anyone under 18 from working in a meatpacking plant. Neil announced that he was turning the case over to the state Attorney General for prosecution, claiming that his department's inquiry had discovered "egregious violations of virtually every aspect of Iowa's child labour laws."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/us/06meat.html?hp |title=Inquiry Finds Under-Age Workers at Meat Plant |work=The New York Times |first=Julia |last=Preston |date=5 August 2008}}</ref> Agriprocessors claimed that it was at a loss to understand the allegations. Agriprocessors' CEO went to trial on these charges in state court on 4 May 2010. After a five-week trial he was found not guilty of all 57 charges of child labour violations by the Black Hawk County District Court jury in Waterloo, Iowa, on 7 June 2010.<ref>{{cite news |first=Julia |last=Preston |date=7 June 2010 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/08/us/08immig.html?ref=agriprocessors_inc |title=Former Manager of Iowa Slaughterhouse Is Acquitted of Labour Charges |work=The New York Times |access-date=3 April 2024}}</ref>