UNITED STATES: HAITIAN ORPHAN BRINGS MESSAGE OF INSPIRATION - Ex-slave
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published: Monday | June 12, 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (AP):
A HAITIAN orphan who claims she was a virtual slave for a wealthy South
Florida family says she hopes her story will inspire other victims of
abuse.
Williathe Narcisse, then 12, told police in 1999 that she was beaten,
enslaved and repeatedly raped by the 20-year-old son of a Pembroke Pines
couple who had smuggled her into the United States three years earlier
to be a household servant, according to court documents.
"I can't forget what happened to me. I don't know why they tortured me.
I'm not going to dwell on it," said Narcisse, now 19, who graduated
second in her class from the Life Skills Center of Broward County....
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