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Posted on 12/28/2008 3:31:57 PM PST by nobama08
IRVINE, Calif. – Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door.
They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under the open faucet. She wasn't much taller than the counter and the soapy water swallowed her slender arms. To put the dishes away, she climbed on a chair.
But she was not the daughter of the couple next door doing chores. She was their maid.
Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Egypt to work in their California home. She awoke before dawn and often worked past midnight to iron their clothes, mop the marble floors and dust the family's crystal. She earned $45 a month working up to 20 hours a day. She had no breaks during the day and no days off.
The trafficking of children for domestic labor in the U.S. is an extension of an illegal but common practice in Africa. Families in remote villages send their daughters to work in cities for extra money and the opportunity to escape a dead-end life. Some girls work for free on the understanding that they will at least be better fed in the home of their employer.
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Someone else just beat me posting this. Please pull.
The Religion of Peace (TM) strikes again.
Ah yes,
Child maid. Sounds good.
From Iceland, About 20 or 21?
And, the Egyptians are in jail for how long?
still a blivet
They have a new “maid” now, around 9 years old......
Dude, the Free Market Rules!
The wrist slap sentence is how much our “progressive” courts think about innocent children.
Hey, what’s the problem, it’s a free country, right?
Right?
Easy. Change the laws. If a child is functioning as a slave, the slaveholders will be shot.
The couple pleaded guilty to all charges, including forced labor and slavery. They were ordered to pay $76,000, the amount Shyima would have earned at the minimum wage. The sentence: Three years in federal prison for Ibrahim, 22 months for his wife, and then deportation for both. Their lawyers declined to comment for this story.
What filth we are allowing into this country, and all that is necessary to avoid it is to look honestly at the customs in the nations they come from.
Celebrate Diversity!
Forfeiture/confiscation only works when you can get at their assets...It looks like they are rich Egyptians who likely hold most of their assets in Egypt. Good luck getting Mubarak’s crew to help with that.
The sad truth is, this slave is better off growing up in the us, then living in the any of the hell hole islamic middle east countries. women are treated like crap there. in the us, at least there is hope for freedom.
we can’t take all the worlds people in here.
Things like this are perfectly legal in Egypt and most of the Middle East so trying to get at assests there for things that are legal would be impossible.
A neighbor who lives on the next street was bought from her father at the age of 14. She was brought here from Morocco by her husband more than 40 years older than her to this country. He has since died.
She is NOT a citizen of this country her husband would not hear of such a thing, and had two children by him. Different type of anchor baby situation here.
Lets see, Africans selling Africans to Africans to be transported by others to remote lands for employment.
Thought I had read something of this nature back in school?
Didn’t we kind of settle this problem MANY years ago?
Now here is an African that DESERVES retribution from her masters, yet those that have absolutely NO CLAIM will demand it from US.
The young lady will probably also get deported....
this probably happens more often than we hear about too.
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