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Wellesley Sex Trafficking

Friday, January 25, 2013

Sun Spa Owners Indicted on Sex Trafficking Charges

The Attorney General's office has issued indictments in the Sun Spa sex trafficking arrests from October.

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Sun Spa Owners Indicted on Sex Trafficking Charges

The Attorney General's office has issued indictments in the Sun Spa sex trafficking arrests from October.

  Indictments came down today in the Sun Spa sex trafficking case, according to the Attorney General's office-issued press release. The three owners of Sun Spa (also known as Sun Studio), were arrested and charged with sex trafficking in October. “These defendants allegedly employed masseuses to offer sexual services at two massage parlor locations, and further, profited personally from those services,” said Attorney General Martha Coakley in a press release. “We allege that these defendants exploited these women and coerced them into prostitution.” Joseph Girouard, 55, of Revere, was indicted on two counts of Trafficking of Persons for Sexual Servitude, two counts of Conspiracy to Traffic Persons for Sexual Servitude, two counts of  …

W Gannon

4:37 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013

Never made the Malden paper for some reason.   more ›

Saturday, October 20, 2012

UPDATE: Sex Trafficking Suspects Plead Not Guilty

A Malden woman, Wenjie Dong, 49, was among the three arrested and facing charges of running an illegal prostitution operation.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Owners of Sun Spa in Wellesley Charged with Sex Trafficking

Owners of two massage parlors to face human trafficking, prostitution charges, officials said.

  The owners of massage parlors in Wellesley and Revere were arrested today in connection with human trafficking and prostitution, according to a press release from Attorney General Martha Coakley's office.  The owners, Zhen Lai, 37, of Quincy, Joseph Girouard, 55, of Revere and Wenjie Dong, 49, of Malden were arrested this afternoon in Quincy and Somerville by state and federal officials, with assistance from local police.  Officials say Sun Spa (also known as Sun Studio) in Wellesley, owned by Lai and Girouard, and Bodywork in Revere, also owned by the men, had masseuses who allegedly offered sexual activity in exchange for cash tips.  Search warrants were executed at both massage parlors today, according to the press release.  Lai and …

DesiL

5:40 pm on Monday, December 31, 2012

How does one come to know and state as fact that a vast majority of these paroles do this? Especially Asian and Russian ones?   more ›

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