Domestic Servitude2022
Paris, France, 2022
France
West African teenager promised education instead forced to cook and clean from 5am to midnight. No pay no schooling Accused: French-Ivorian family.
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Domestic Servitude2011
Meyzieu, France, 2011
France FR
French Couple (Male aged 66 as of December 2010) and their family (the victim’s domestic duties included care for the family’s grandmother). KNOWN DATES: * 1979 – victim first worked for her traffickers in Senegal * Unknown dates: victim worked for her traffickers in Spain * 1997 Victim transported by her traffickers into France by car (without being controlled by immigration) * 2009 Victim fled her trafficker’s property * Unknown date – arrest of traffickers * Trial – October 2010 * Sentencing - December 2010, Lyon: SENTENCING: one year suspended sentence and “nearly 42,000 euros to the complainant in respect of back pay, rights retirement and compensation.” THE PROSECUTION HAD REQUESTED: two years suspended sentence and two years of probation as well as 60,000 Euro for the victim. This was publicized as France’s first domestic slavery case under Article 224-4-1 of the Penal Code (November 2007). Notice that in this case the unpaid & underpaid labor began in Senegal (1979) & continued during approximately 30 years including some time in Spain before approximately 12 years in France.
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