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Originally Posted by South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Former Miami-Dade teacher gets 7 years for enslaving Haitian girl

BY VANESSA BLUM

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

9:07 PM EDT, May 20, 2008

FORT LAUDERDALE-

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."

Friends, relatives and former students crowded the benches behind Paulin and cried as she spoke. Celestin, 22, who testified at trial that Paulin forced her to sleep on the floor and work 15 hours a day, sat quietly in the back row.

Prosecutor Edward Chung said Paulin had shown no remorse for "an extremely serious crime."

"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.

Miramar resident Claire Telasco, Paulin's sister, was charged in the case and found not guilty by the Broward jury.

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.

Vanessa Blum can be reached at vbblum@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4605.

Copyright © 2008, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

[mezanmi]

Sistèm restavèk la sanble pap jwenn plas li nan peyi Zetazini. M konnen plizyè lot ayisyen ki eseye vin ak li (sou plizyè fom). Y ap konn joj anba misye blan!

[intruder]

Originally Posted by mezanmi

Sistèm restavèk la sanble pap jwenn plas li nan peyi Zetazini. M konnen plizyè lot ayisyen ki eseye vin ak li (sou plizyè fom). Y ap konn joj anba misye blan!

I'm not one to snitch but i would report it if i came accross it.

Now some forms of it is acceptable like if they adopt the child and make sure it gets an education and treats them with dignity then fine. All children should have chores around the house. But not to the degree wwhere they are doing more than their share of the chores among the house's other occupants.

[kabaret]

wen se is goin to get deported for crime against humanity

[PierreRichard]

People don't have chains on their arms and legs now, but people still have chains in their minds'

Restavek = Haiti's modern day slavery</SPAN>

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