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Accountant and teacher kept girl, 14, as a slave

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A "heartless" accountant who helped his wife smuggle a 14-year-old girl into Britain and subjected her to years of slavery, was jailed for 18 months yesterday.

Samuel Quainoo and his wife Ernestina, a teacher, who was given a suspended sentence, denied the girl schooling and did not allow her to make friends. They forced her to wear hand-me-downs, apart from once buying her T-shirts with "my other name is bitch" printed on them.

The couple pretended the girl was their own child, but forced her to cook, clean and do the washing for their real child while they were at work, London's Isleworth Crown Court was told.

She was never paid and later told police and social workers she was so desperate that she had thought about committing suicide.

When confronted by police, Quainoo, who has a previous conviction for false accounting, claimed the child had cursed them with a "voodoo" spell.

Quainoo, 59, and his wife, 37, of West Drayton, pleaded guilty to one count of child trafficking but claimed the girl was properly looked after and "treated like a daughter". Judge Jonathan Lowen said he had no doubt they were lying. It was "clear that girl's entry was carefully planned" with false birth and baptism certificates being used to persuade British high commission officials in Ghana to grant her a visa, he said.

Dismissing Mrs Quainoo's claim of unstinting love and care for the girl as "inconsistent" with the facts, he accepted the teenager's account of being a "servant or slave" during her two-year ordeal.

"You were both a teacher and a graduate and of a different socio-economic plateau," he told the couple during sentencing. "Your exploitation of her was heartless and sustained."
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23 responses // Accountant and teacher kept girl, 14, as a slave

  • How did they only get 18 months for this?
    phillyharper
  • i agree that 18 months in jail is not sufficent for the two years of abuse they inflicted but the real question here should be how did they "aquire" the girl in the first place?
    crazykatlady
  • I think jail time is a gift.
    J_Jammer
  • Only 18 months?! Are you kidding me?! That is soo messed up.
    bamboombango
  • I think they should be punished capital style.
    PatrioticAstronaut
  • It is definately depressing that things like this are still happening.
    thekingbeyond
  • 18 months is a joke
    keeshii768
  • It's always the quiet ones you have to look out for. They should be spending the first 18 months of there 20 year sentence under the jail.
    eldamon
  • that is completely upsurd that they would only get 18 months!!
    vinnynjenny
  • My other name is bitch is pretty catchy

    but they should have gotten 18 years
    clayjj05
  • 18 months?! wtf? Its that poor girls WHOLE life that will be tainted by that couple, and they get 18 months of jail time?! LAME.
    THEREisHOPE
  • They should have been jailed for as long as they held her captive and then they should have been deported when they were released. It's amazing that these things still happen today...Keep in mind (THIS IS NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT!!!)
    matthatton25
  • Enslave the two bastards like they enslaved that poor girl! Make them clean and cook and be humiliated by somebody!
    FallenMorgan
  • 18 months? Thats a walk in the park. They should have no less than 5 years. We are talking about trafficking and slavery of a child.

    I hope they get some in the cage.
    mundosanto
  • Haha you people have no idea what 18 months jail means ... especially for a guy that messed with a kid ... trust me he is gonna get raped soooooooooooooo much by the time he gets out he can park his car in his asshole! But its a FUCKING JOKE that the wife got off JAIL FREE!!! (Suspended Sentence means in (usually) 3 years she will be told her sentence ... but since it will be less than 3 years she will NEVER see a prison cell from the inside!)
    AnonymousIV
  • LoL my friend got 6 months in jail for illegally dumping his grandmothers sofa on a street. These two bastards enslaved a girl and get 18 months. Some justice
    clayjj05
  • Hope they treat child abusers in British jails the same as they do in American jails.

    That 18 months will quickly turn into a life sentence.
    BetterWatching
  • Do they treat female child abusers in a women's prison the same way? Women don't have the right "parts" though...
    FallenMorgan
  • They kept her as a slave for years, denied her of an education, friends and a paycheck and they only received 18 months (and the wife's sentence is suspended)?! Where is the justice?!
    Hawkmang
  • When they kidnapped and enslaved a child, the court should have given them life behind bars
    Brockie
  • That's English law for you. Had they been Muslim, they would have probably got off with an apology from the judge.

    That's not a dig at Muslims, by the way, it's a dig at the incredibly soft bunch of pansies who are now in control of England. People should be charged for the crimes they committed regardless of national origin, gender, or religious affiliation. That's not the case, though.
    AceHardchester
  • In this case I say an eye for an eye. They should have to do some kind of major counseling and many years of community service. Jesusjosephand mary!!! I worry about their own kids and how they felt about the girl waiting on them. What kind of crap is that to grow up around? There has got to be a better way to keep up with people who adopt children from different countries.
    owner1
  • Wow, there are some screwed up idiots in the world, and one was a school teacher...

    I am definately glad the girl no longer has to deal with the 2 slave-drivers...

    I do hope that while they are incarcerated, the couple has to endure suffering that words cannot capture...

    BFAM_RVS
    BFAM_RVS

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