Manhattan Massage Parlors: Queens Woman Charged With Sex Trafficking
Queens Woman Charged With Sex Trafficking
Updated 2:46 PM EDT, Tue, Jun 29, 2010
Young women who answered ads in a Korean newspaper for nail salon attendants were roped into a sex trafficking scheme by a Queens woman, according to Suffolk County officials.
The woman, Jin Hua Cui of Flushing, is now being charged with sex trafficking, promoting prostitution, and conspiracy for coercing young Korean women into prostitution through intimidation and threat of violence, District Attorney Thomas Spota announced Tuesday.
“The victims were picked up daily in Flushing by the driver, co-defendant Sangyel Kuen of Flushing, and transported to massage parlors in Hicksville and Huntington Station,” said Spota.
Officials seized $20,000 in cash, business records, passports, and boxes of condoms from Cui’s home in Flushing. The 44-year-old’s co-defendant, Kuen, 53, pleaded guilty at his arraignment June 22 to promoting prostitution in the third degree.
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