Texas Couple Sentenced For Enslaving Guinean Woman For 16 Years [View all]

Mohamed Toure and Denise Cros-Toure receive seven years. Toure is son of late Guinean president Sekou Toure.

Texas couple have been sentenced to seven years in federal prison each for enslaving a Guinean woman for 16 years.

A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, sentenced Mohamed Toure and Denise Cros-Toure each to two seven-year terms and one five-year term, all sentences to be served concurrently. The Toures are the son and daughter-in-law of the late Guinean president Ahmed Sekou Toure, who helped lead Guinea to independence from French rule in 1958. Sekou Toure was the country’s first president, a role he held until his death in 1984.

The 58-year-olds from Southlake must also serve three years of supervised release upon completion of their prison terms and pay their victim $288,000 in restitution. They also will be deported to Guinea. The couple and defense attorneys are exploring an appeal, said Scott Palmer, attorney for Cros-Toure.

Trial evidence showed the Toures brought the girl, then aged at least five years 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 Toures were convicted in January, and prosecutors had sought the full 20-year prison sentences allowed by law. However, Judge Reed O’Conner tempered the sentence request...More.

~ Beyond weird, major exploitation and abuse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/23/texas-couple-sentenced-enslaving-guinean-woman-16-years