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TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE IS ROLLING IN HIS GRAVE Maude Paulin, an ex-middle school teacher from South Florida, was just sentenced to more than 7 years in prison for enslaving a Haitian girl in her home for years. Paulin beat the girl, deprived her of schooling, and forced her to work 15 hours a day from the time she brought then-14-year-old Simone Celestin to the U.S. from a Haitian orphanage in 1999 until she escaped in 2005. It is estimated that there are at least 17,500 Haitian children, known as "restaveks," brought to the U.S. each year and forced into involuntary servitude. "I love Simone with all my heart," Paulin told Senior U.S. District Judge Jose A. Gonzalez Jr. at a sentencing hearing. "I regret it. I blame myself." [AP]

May 21, 2008 · posted by Lauren Williams, Stereohyped · Link · 6 Responses

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Tagged: Crime & Punishment, Haiti, Slavery

Comments (6)

No. 1 · BORED KIDZ!!!

Wow. Just absolutely disgusting.

Posted: May 21, 2008 at 2:28 pm

No. 2 · Anonymiss

*SMH* Throw her under the jail.

Posted: May 21, 2008 at 3:11 pm

No. 3 · daria at Gorgeous Black Women

Nothing new. There are LOTS of African, West Indian and probably C. and S. American girls in the same sitation. I am not remotely shocked.

Posted: May 21, 2008 at 3:47 pm

No. 4 · Adrianna

I live in Haiti And It's sad to say that I see these children in the street everyday, going to the market an instead of going to school. Sometimes It's the families that put their own kids in that situation. I hope to one day open a charity for the kids. We have to deal with so nuch bullshit here. I'm not shocked it's much more worse here in Haiti.

Posted: May 22, 2008 at 3:57 am

No. 5 · Bronze Trinity

Arghghghhghghghghg!!!! I can't stand this stuff. When will these things stop happening to our people?????

Posted: May 22, 2008 at 2:38 pm

No. 6 · blackmistressdiva

The appropriate punishment is a chain gang. Make that bitch work fields in the heat till she drops dead.

Posted: May 22, 2008 at 5:33 pm

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