Several stories about this couple--legal immigrants who remain citizens of Guinea--who brought an undocumented slave with them and used her as a household servant and babysitter. The girl wasn't sent to school and didn't have an actual bed until one of the children left for college.
They were just convicted of federal changes of forced labor and alien harboring and sentenced to 7 years in the federal pen and to pay restitution of $288K.
Their victim is now in her mid-20s.
Wonder how many cases there are in the U.S. like this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/23/texas-couple-who-enslaved-young-girl-sentenced-years-prison-then-deportation/?utm_term=.5120e89c277b
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/enslaved-girl-guinea-16-years.html
According to the April filing, Ms. Cros-Toure would physically abuse the girl, who had scars consistent with stories she told of being whipped with an electrical cord and having an earring ripped from her ear. The girl also said that she had visited a doctor only once and had slept on a floor for years, upgrading to a twin bed only when one of the children left for college.
Story about a similar slave from the Philippines: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/
They were just convicted of federal changes of forced labor and alien harboring and sentenced to 7 years in the federal pen and to pay restitution of $288K.
Their victim is now in her mid-20s.
Wonder how many cases there are in the U.S. like this.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/23/texas-couple-who-enslaved-young-girl-sentenced-years-prison-then-deportation/?utm_term=.5120e89c277b
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/enslaved-girl-guinea-16-years.html
According to the April filing, Ms. Cros-Toure would physically abuse the girl, who had scars consistent with stories she told of being whipped with an electrical cord and having an earring ripped from her ear. The girl also said that she had visited a doctor only once and had slept on a floor for years, upgrading to a twin bed only when one of the children left for college.
Story about a similar slave from the Philippines: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/06/lolas-story/524490/