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Taking a page from Karen Walker's handbook, Bay Area real-estate agent Mabelle de la Rosa Dann (AKA Mabelle Crabbe) is in federal court today on charges of coaxing a Peruvian nanny to her Walnut Creek home for a better life, but instead kept her as an "indentured servant for nearly two years."
Sheesh.
Some of the charges railed against Dann are: failing to pay her for her work, charging her around $15,000 for Dann's expenses in Peru including her costs for searching for nannies before she hired Pena-Canal, food rationing, threatening the nanny with deportation, explaining to her that "[w]hen you come to the United States, you must suffer," and forcing her to live on the living room floor.
In April of this year, ran away from her job/prison after telling people at Indian Valley Elementary School about the nightmarish conditions.
Dann's ruling is eagerly awaited.
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my native blood is boiling.
my hand is itching for a tomahawk to scalp this reptile with.
walnut creek harbors many 'privileged' people.
i'm sure this one wouldn't go missing.
"[w]hen you come to the United States, you must suffer"
You can say that again.
The only thing more repugnant to me than slavery are real estate agents. They think those soft focus glamour shots they stick up with the shrill, hyperbolic text that accompanies their listings is somehow meant to convey trustworthiness or something. Ha! Real estate agents are the modern equivalent of grave robbers, nit pickers, fish wives, etc. Real estate agents who enslave other people like they're some kinda Leona Helmsley or similar are inexcusable. This woman should be given death penalty and then swiftly and efficiently carted off to the gas chamber. There is really no other option.
I love that we're in SF calling someone living in a "900-square-foot apartment on Ygnacio Valley Road" 'privileged'. Kettle, meet pot.
Btw, seems like we should deport this lady and let the nanny stay.
some people just feel it is their right to treat others they view as inferior, as well, inferiors.
i don't think she would be missed.
are we organizing a lynch mob?
any takers?
j/k