A Haitian in U.S. Wins Case Over Forced Labor
"Ms. Celestin, 23, told a South Florida court in March that she was brought to the United States from Haiti at the age of 14 and never attended school. She recalled for jurors how she was hit with a broom or shoe, worked 15-hour days, and was forced to sleep on the floor and eat table scraps.
Her recollections persuaded jurors to convict members of her adoptive family, Evelyn Theodore, 74, and Maude Paulin, her 52-year-old daughter, of conspiring to violate Ms. Celestin’s civil rights and compelling her to perform forced labor."
CARMEN GENTILE in the New York Times.