NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Officials arraigned a man on a 24-count indictment over sex trafficking charges, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced on Monday.
Guiyang Xu, 66, of Flushing, Queens was charged with sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, labor trafficking, attempted labor trafficking, third-degree promoting prostitution, first-degree attempted rape and related charges.
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"This defendant allegedly coerced, exploited and horrifically abused vulnerable women, forcing them to have sex for money, tightly controlling their lives, and threatening harm and humiliation if they left," Brooklyn DA Gonzalez said.
According to the investigators, in April, two women, ages 44 and 38, each responded to advertisements to work as massage therapists at Rose Spa located at 479 78th Street, in Bay Ridge, which operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The women began working shortly thereafter and as part of their employment, they lived, slept and ate at Rose Spa, using massage tables as beds and relying on the Xu for food, officials said.
Shortly after beginning to work at the spa, the victims were allegedly told that they were expected to perform sexual services for clients, including intercourse, masturbation, and other sexual activities.
The cost for the sex acts was approximately $50.
Authorities also allege that the women did not have set work hours, instead working seven days a week and were expected to wake up at any hour to service clients.
Xu also withheld their wages and threatened to post compromising photographs of them on the internet if they did not comply with his demands, Gonzales added.
It is alleged that Xu raped the 38-year-old victim on or about May 15, inside of Rose Spa after she refused to have sex with him.
On May 19, the woman walked into the 68th Precinct to report the rape and Xu was arrested on May 25.
On June 8, police officials conducted an undercover operation into at Rose Spa at which time a third woman allegedly agreed to perform sexual services for the undercover in exchange for money while in the presence of the defendant.
On June 14, Xu was also arraigned on a separate 20-count indictment charging him with sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, labor trafficking, attempted labor trafficking, first-degree rape, fourth-degree promoting prostitution and related charges of another employee.
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