While she was a low ranking officer in the Tonton Macoute, her courage impressed the president so much that he promoted her to the position of warden at Fort Dimanche.
She developed a "gruesome reputation for herself as she designed inventive sexual tortures" in Fort Dimanche.
[5] She was later promoted to the Supreme Head of the Fillettes Laleau, the female branch of the Tonton Macoutes.
[8] When Papa Doc died in 1971, and his son, Jean-Claude Duvalier, succeeded him, he had Adolphe removed from her post as head of Fort Dimanche.
[11] On 10 February 1986 a soldier guarding her vacant house from looters reported that she was being held prisoner in an army barracks next to the national palace.