Liberia, June 24 -- Another defendant in the human trafficking trial involving 57 alleged victims testified Tuesday that four members of Vice President Jeremiah Koung's security detail visited the compound where victims say they were held and abused,corroborating testimony given a day earlier by a fellow defendant.

Victims told the court they were cut off from their families, denied adequate food and water, beaten, forced to endure punishment under the hot sun and subjected to other forms of abuse while being held there.

But in more than four hours of testimony, Stanley Wonlebaye, who, like the other defendants, denied charges of human trafficking, theft of property and criminal conspiracy, went further than the previous witness. Corro...