Thursday, 20 November 2008

Estate agent keeps slave

Why does this story not surprise me.....

"A Walnut Creek real-estate agent will appear in federal court today on charges that she lured a Peruvian nanny to the East Bay with promises of a better life but instead kept her as an indentured servant for nearly two years.

Mabelle de la Rosa Dann, 45, also known as Mabelle Crabbe, was indicted by a federal grand jury in June. She has pleaded not guilty to a charge of harboring an illegal alien for the purpose of private financial gain.

Dann and others brought Zoraida Pena-Canal, 30, of Peru into the United States on a three-month visitor's visa in July 2006, authorities said. Pena-Canal had worked for Dann's sister and Dann as a housekeeper and nanny in Peru several years earlier, investigators said."

3 comments:

John McClane said...

Slave keeps estate agent.

Now that would be news.

Anonymous said...

This anti-estate agent thing is quite unnecessary.

Anonymous said...

Estate agents are the absolute scum of the earth: complete leeches.