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San Francisco ChronicleWoman gets 5 years for enslaving nanny
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, April 15, 2010
A Walnut Creek real estate agent was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison for luring a Peruvian nanny to the East Bay with promises of a better life but instead enslaving her for nearly two years.
Mabelle de la Rosa Dann, 46, also known as Mabelle Crabbe, kept the nanny a virtual prisoner, cut her off from Spanish-speaking media, rationed her food and "mentally abused her through explosive tirades and degrading behavior," federal prosecutors wrote in court documents.
In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken in Oakland ordered Dann to pay $123,740 in restitution and placed her on three years of supervised release.
Dann was found guilty in October by a federal jury of forced labor and other charges.
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Mabelle de la Rosa DannWalnut Creek Real-Estate Agent Answers Nanny Exploitation Allegations
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 "
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.
By Brock Keeling in News on November 19, 2008 11:46 AM
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