Execution for man who held6 sex slaves in dungeon
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A MAN in the central province of Henan who kept six girls and young women as sex slaves in a dungeon and forced three of them to kill two of their fellow captives was executed yesterday.
Li Hao, 36, was convicted of murder, rape, illegal detention, organized prostitution and manufacturing pornography for profit. He was sentenced to death, deprived of political rights for life and fined 10,000 yuan (US$1,650), at Luoyang Intermediate People’s Court in November 2012.
A higher court in Henan Province upheld the ruling after Li appealed. The death penalty was approved by China’s Supreme People’s Court.
Li dug the dungeon under a basement he bought in Luoyang in August 2009 and lured his victims there, holding them for between two and 21 months.
Five were prostitutes he tricked into his prison by soliciting their services, and one had been selling birth control products, the People’s Daily website reported, adding that Li installed seven metal doors to prevent escape.
The victims were aged from around 16 to 23. One who was 20 when she was kidnapped became pregnant, the report said.
Li, a clerk with Luoyang’s quality supervision bureau, repeatedly raped the women, forced them to appear in obscene online shows in March and April in 2011 and forced them to have sex with clients for a few days from late August to early September the same year.
Li is said to have spent two weeks a month with the victims while telling his wife that he was working nights as a guard, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported later that year.
The dungeon was discovered when one of the captives managed to escape and alerted the police.
In a bizarre twist in the case, Duan, Jiang and Zhang, three of Li’s sex slaves, were also found guilty of murder, having killed two of the other victims held captive in the dungeon on Li’s instructions.
The three were given lenient sentences. Duan, who was found to have killed both females, was sentenced to three years in prison, while the other two were put on probation.
According to details revealed by the police, Li’s motive was to make money by forcing the victims into prostitution or to appear in obscene webcasts.
The captives had worked at karaoke bars, hair salons and a massage shop before they fell victim to Li. When arrested in September 2011, Li was married and had an eight-month-old son.
Li was executed “according to law” after meeting close relatives in a detention house in Luoyang, according to a statement issued by the Supreme People’s Court.
After details of the case were made public, the Luoyang police chief apologized for failing to detect the crimes sooner and suspended four police officers.
The case recalled the actions of Austrian Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter Elisabeth as a sex slave in a cramped windowless dungeon for 24 years and fathered seven children with her. He was jailed for life on rape and murder charges in March 2009.
Also in Austria, Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped at the age of 10 and held captive in a tiny cellar for eight and a half years before she escaped in August 2006.
More recently, former US bus driver Ariel Castro hanged himself in his cell in September after being jailed for life for kidnapping and raping three young women he held as sex slaves for a decade.
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