January 16, 2019

"Texas couple"--actually from Guinea--found guilty of enslaving young girl for 16 years


Last week a federal jury found a "Texas couple" guilty of enslaving a girl from Guinea for 16 years at their home in a Dallas-Fort Worth suburb.

Federal authorities had accused the couple, Mohamed Toure and Denise Cros-Toure, 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.

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.

Authorities said there were no state records of Mr. Toure working.  Instead the couple relied on cash from outside the U.S. as their primary source of income.  They collected about $200,000 per year from 2010 to 2016, according to the authorities.

Here's the charming couple:

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/01/12/us/12xp-enslaved/merlin_144034425_547a47dd-c364-4a07-a49a-6eba298aa218-superJumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp

**mandatory Google warning:  "Google has not been able to verify the above information, so readers are advised that it's probably 'fake news.'  In fact we haven't been able to verify that the people in the picture are real, let alone that they did anything like what the article claims.
   The above article is probably just pure Islamophobia.  Islam would never allow its followers to enslave a 6-year-old girl for 16 years.  You should only trust news from us or one of our Trusted Sources, like the NY Times or Washington Post or CNN.**
SF update:  I'll readily admit the information above was from a skanky, unreliable source that often prints "fake news:"   the New York Times.

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