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The Slatest Edition Prosecutors Say N.Y. Madam Forced Women Into Sex Slavery Jin Hua Cui, who was arrested for prostitution back in 2007, has been charged by New York prosecutors for running a ring that forced young Korean immigrants into lives as sex slaves. Cui, 44, found women by placing help-wanted ads for nail salons. "Women would respond thinking that they were going to work at a nail salon. Then forced them into prostitution through threats of violence, intimidation and embarrassment," said Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota. "If they did not cooperate she would reveal to their family, friends and members of the community in Flushing that they were working as prostitutes and threaten to have Chinese gangs kill them." Cui, who lives in a red brick Tudor million-dollar mansion, would keep the $60 to $80 her slaves would charge for sex at various massage parlors in Huntington Station and Hicksville; the young immigrants would be allowed to keep only the tips. "I never suspected anything like this," Barbara Orlowski, 52, told the New York Daily News. "You hardly ever saw her, but if she is running a sex ring, I guess she's been busy." Orlowski, a Catholic school teacher, is one of Cui's neighbors who said they saw young women frequently visiting the mansion. Investigators worked for four months to gather evidence before arresting Ciu, who is said to have forced at least seven women to work for her. They learned that johns were solicited through Craigslist and that signs in the window of one of the massage parlors advertised a "Stimulus Plan" and "Asian Bodywork." Read original story in New York Daily News | Wednesday, June 30, 2010 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
