Burning Atlanta

This is so sick and happens too often. Some  business owners keep illegals in virtual slavery, pay them little and work their asses off. The really bad part is knowing there are people that advocate this. Let's bring back slavery! Screw those pesky workplace and child labor laws.

Sad, very sad.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a South Florida woman to seven years and three months in prison for keeping a teenage girl from Haiti in servitude for six years.

Maude Paulin, 52, a former Miami-Dade County middle school teacher, was convicted in March along with her mother, Evelyn Theodore, of conspiring to enslave the girl, forcing her to work and harboring an illegal immigrant.

Before being sentenced, Paulin apologized to U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez Jr., saying she had good intentions when she arranged to bring Simone Celestin from Haiti to live with her family.

"I love Simone with all my heart," Paulin said. "Unfortunately, I can't change what is already done." BULLSHIT.

"This was a middle school teacher placed in charge of this community's children," Chung said. "She was the one who committed this crime and she's the one who still to this day believes she's done nothing wrong."

Paulin's ex-husband, Saintfort Paulin, who was convicted of harboring an illegal immigrant, was sentenced to 18 months' probation, including six months' home confinement, and ordered to pay a $500 fine. A sentencing hearing for Theodore, 74, who suffered a stroke after her conviction, has been postponed.

At trial, Celestin testified that she was brought to the United States from Haiti when she was 14 and never enrolled in school.

When she failed to finish her long list of chores, Maude Paulin and Theodore would beat her with "anything handy," including shoes and kitchenware, Celestin said.