Texas couple convicted of keeping African girl as slave for 16 years

[Soph0571]

A couple who enslaved a West African girl at their home in Texas for 16 years have been convicted by a federal jury.

Mohamed Touré, the son of Guinea’s first president Ahmed Sékou Touré, and his wife Denise Cros-Toure arranged for the child to travel to the US when she was only five years old.

They forced her to cook, clean and look after their biological children without pay, beat and whipped her and called her a “dog” and a “slave”.

The girl eventually managed to escape from the house in Southlake with the help of concerned neighbours in 2016.

Touré and his wife now face a maximum of 20 years in prison after being found guilty of forced labour, conspiracy to commit alien harbouring and alien harbouring.

[link:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/texas-couple-enslaved-girl-guinea-west-africa-southlake-mohamed-toure-son-president-a8724966.html|

This is shocking.

[malaise]

1. Lock them up

Elites from several countries have been getting away with this criminality for way too long.

[riversedge]

2. Whow!

[Jarqui]

3. This is a case where, if the facts as presented were sustained in court,

I would have little reservation if they got 20 years of hard penal labor.

Their crime is so heinous that something like that seems like justice.

[clementine613]

4. Once Again, Rethugs Show They Want To Return All Africans To Slavery...

to use for manual labor, sadistic punishment and rape.

[displacedtexan]

5. Southlake.

Not surprised at all.

[Johnny2X2X]

6. Slavery is spreading

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Millions of people across the globe are sold into slavery yearly. It’s a growing problem. People have no idea.

[ansible]

9. Slavery never ended in Africa

[MineralMan]

7. Similar things have happened many times.

They usually don't make the national news, though.

Wealthy people from cultures that condone such slavery-like conditions often bring their attitudes with them when they come here. They often get away with importing slave workers, because they have wealth and keep their lives private. It's alarming, to say the least.

[Demovictory9]

8. Sickening. Exploitation disguised as adoption

[Flaleftist]

10. They should do hard labor for life and the victim should get every cent they own.