A Texas couple have been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for enslaving a Guinean woman for 16 years.
Mohamed Toure and Denise Cros-Toure, a Fort Worth couple accused of enslaving a Guinean woman for 16 years.
Trial evidence showed the Tourés brought the girl, who was then at least 5 years old but perhaps as old as 13, from her rural Guinean village in 2000. They forced her to work without pay in their home as a housekeeper, cook and nanny until she fled and alerted authorities. The Tourés were convicted in January, and prosecutors had sought the full 20-year prison sentences allowed by law. However, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Conner tempered the sentence request.
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