Forced Labor

A couple living in Texas were properly convicted of forced labor and other charges for forcing a girl from Guinea to work in their home for 16 years from the time she was 9 years old, the Fifth Circuit <strong><a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/forcedlabor.pdf">ruled</a></strong>.

NEW ORLEANS — A couple living in Texas were properly convicted of forced labor and other charges for forcing a girl from Guinea to work in their home for 16 years from the time she was 9 years old, the Fifth Circuit ruled . The couple, who abused and neglected the girl, failed to prove that the forced labor statute’s definition of “serious harm” is unconstitutionally vague or overbroad.

Categories / Appeals, Criminal

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