Queens Madam Allegedly Forced Women Into Sex Slavery

Jin Hua Cui

A Queens madam has been arrested for allegedly living the high life at the expense of naive Korean girls. Responding to ads in Korean newspapers for nail technician work, the women were forced into prostitution by Jin Hua Cui, and threatened to tell their families they were prostitutes or "have Chinese gangs kill them" if they didn't cooperate. The women were brought to two brothels disguised as nail salons in Long Island, one which advertised a "Stimulus Plan."

According to Suffolk County DA Thomas Spota, "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." They were forced to have sex for between $60 and $80, but Cui pocketed all the tips. Kuen pleaded guilty at an arraignment last week to promoting prostitution in the third degree. Detectives also searched Cui's multi-million dollar home and the two brothels, discovering $20,000 in cash and over 1,000 condoms. Spota told the Post, "Her success came at a price to the women that she enslaved."

Locals were surprised that the neighborhood "Asian Bodywork" shops turned out to be falsely advertising its services. One Catholic school teacher told the Daily News, "I never suspected anything like this. You hardly ever saw her, but if she is running a sex ring, I guess she's been busy." Cui pleaded not guilty to promoting prostitution and sex trafficking, and is held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

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By Jaya Saxena in News on June 30, 2010 9:47 AM

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hotstepper

Flushing-based prostitution ring? naaaw, say it ain't so!

what_a_dick

what a dick

Såkandulæredet

Isn't that the chick from Grey's Anatomy?

Potty Boy

LOL - this one's not as ugly

Kelles

"The women were brought to two brothels disguised as nail salons in Long Island..." Did the Cops get suspicious after lots of Johns were going in to "have their nails done?"

rammyh

Thank you! - Nail Salon has to be the worst front ever for a prostie joint - tons of guys popping into a nail joint for 10 minutes at a time, never a single guy sitting in the front getting a mani/pedi. Stupid ass pimp.

GREGORYABUTLER

"10 minutes at a time"?

Don't guys usually book a whole hour?

10 minutes is barely time to take your pants off and relax before you get busy!

just saying

Haven't you ever heard of "slam, bang, thank you ma'am"?

This was hardly the "girlfriend experience" promised by higher-price escorts. The woman who pimped out these young naive girls is the lowest scum of the earth and deserves to be locked up forever.