According to media reports, Fikreta and Damir Porić used phoney job postings to lure at least ten women from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia to Slovenia whom they then abused and exploited.
The couple had posted several nanny job advertisements for their kids in Ljubljana since 2013 offering 350 to 500 euros in earnings a month plus food and accommodation.
The women lured in this way were then exposed to the couple's exploitation, physical and verbal abuse.
The victims were often made to sleep on the floor or on the balcony, their movement was restricted and they were not allowed to use a phone.
One of the victims is alleged to have been subjected to sexual abuse.
Human trafficking carries up to 15 years in prison and sexual violence up to ten years.
At the pre-trial hearing last autumn, prosecutor Jože Levašič offered a prison sentence of five years to Damir and ten years to Fikreta in exchange for admission of guilt, but the couple pleaded not guilty.
After they decided to plead guilty last week, the prosecutor proposed three years for the husband and three years and nine months for the wife.
Judge Srečko Škerbec then sentenced Fikreta to three years and four months, and her husband to two years and eleven months in jail.
The couple had been in custody since their arrest so they had already served a third of their time, the newspaper Dnevnik reported last week.
Prosecutor Levašič announced an appeal over the length of the sentences.
