Couple slave girl

Updated April 17, A Queensland couple who forced a Fijian woman to work as their domestic servant for eight years have been jailed for what a judge labelled a "callous" and "calculated" crime. Isikeli and Malavine Pulini admitted to harbouring an unlawful non-citizen, but last week a District Court jury in Brisbane found them guilty of forced labour offences — the first convictions in Australia. The jury also convicted Malavine Pulini, 48, of trafficking the woman, who had her passport taken from her when she arrived in Brisbane on a tourist visa in

A federal jury convicted the defendants of forced labor, conspiracy to commit alien harboring, and alien harboring on January 11 following a four-day trial. Now, as a consequence of their convictions, both defendants, who are citizens of Guinea and lawful permanent residents of the United States, may lose their U. The Department of Justice will continue to investigate and vigorously prosecute human traffickers and vindicate the rights of their victims. The girl, according to prosecutors, was five when the couple allegedly arranged for her to leave her village in the West African country of Guinea in Click here to get breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases in the True Crime Newsletter.

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. 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.

A couple who enslaved a West African girl at their home in Texas for 16 years have been convicted by a federal jury. The girl eventually managed to escape from the house in Southlake with the help of concerned neighbours in Once in Texas the couple isolated the girl and prevented her from going to school — unlike their own children, some of whom were around the same age.