Texas Couple Found Guilty of Enslaving Girl From Guinea for 16 Years

By artappraiser on Sun, 01/13/2019 - 11:59am |

A federal jury on Thursday found a Texas couple guilty of enslaving a girl from Guinea for 16 years at their home in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb, where she was forced to cook, clean and care for their children, investigators said.

Federal authorities had accused the couple, Mohamed Toure and Denise Cros-Toure of Southlake, of forcing the girl to work for them and their five children from when she was 6 until she was 22, according to a court filing. Mr. Toure is the son of Guinea’s first president, Ahmed Sékou Touré, who led the country for 26 years until his death in 1984.

After a four-day trial and a day of deliberations, the jury found the couple guilty on several counts, including the forced labor charge, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. A sentencing date has not been set [....]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/11/us/enslaved-girl-guinea-16-years.html

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Texas Couple Found Guilty of Enslaving Girl From Guinea for 16 Years

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