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Woman Sentenced for Forcing Immigrant to Work Without Pay
By Richard C. Paddock - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO (April 15) -- A Bay Area woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for forcing an illegal Peruvian immigrant to work without pay for nearly two years, U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello announced Thursday. Real estate agent Mabelle de la Rosa Dann, 46, was found guilty last year of conspiring to smuggle the victim from Peru in 2006, bringing her to suburban Walnut Creek, Calif., and forcing her to cook, clean and provide child care for 21 months. U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken, who handed down the prison sentence Wednesday, also ordered Dann to pay the victim ...
ACORN Workers Caught Helping Sex-Traffic Posers
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyACORN office workers in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., have been caught on hidden video camera advising a couple posing as a prostitute and pimp on how to hide their crimes. On Friday, the video of the Washington, D.C., sting was released by the creator, an independent filmmaker. ACORN, a national non-profit that helps the poor get housing, fired the two Baltimore office employees on Thursday. ...
World Slavery Report: 'Millions are Living in Bondage'
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySlavery still exists around the world. It is mainly women and children who are exploited. When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton was First Lady, her office drafted legislation and worked with Congress to pass the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Her former chief of staff, Melanne Verveer, now works in the State Department with Clinton as the nation's first ambassador for Global Woman's Issues. When Clinton held a ceremony at the State Department on Tuesday to draw attention to the ninth annual release of a State Department report on trafficking in persons, she unwittingly drew a ...
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