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Sex slaves locked up for 2 years

POLICE have arrested a man in central China's Luoyang City alleged to have abducted six KTV women, murdered two of them and kept the others as sex slaves, locked up for two years.

Police freed the four women, all in their early 20s, from a cellar he dug underneath a residential building, and the remains of the other two were found buried in a corner, the Southern Metropolis Daily reported yesterday.

The suspect, 34-year-old Li Hao, is a married man with a young son. He used to work for Luoyang City Fire Bureau and later became an official with the city's Quality and Technical Supervision Bureau, the newspaper said.

Li abducted the six women from several KTV bars in Luoyang and, according to police, brainwashed them to "fall in love with him and volunteer to have sex with him." The women all called him "big brother" or "hubby" and, instead of struggling to resist, even fought each other to have sex with him, police said.

According to the newspaper, even when police rushed to the cellar early this month, the women locked inside all believed it was Li returning and shouted from behind the iron doors: "You finally come home, big brother."

But when they saw the police and heard that Li had been arrested, they burst into tears, the newspaper said.

Police said Li had beaten one of the woman to death in front of the others to teach them to "be obedient." He buried the body near where the others slept as a warning. Another woman was killed and buried after a fight over who should sleep with Li.

One of the women, nicknamed Keke, has been arrested for helping Li in that murder, police said.

Li was finally caught when one of the women escaped after she had been forced to go on the street to earn money as a prostitute and went to the police.

After the escape, Li went to his sister's for money, intending to flee but police caught him before he left the city.

The cellar was under a 20-square-meter basement in an old residential building near a police station. Li had bought the basement and dug out the cellar over a year, police said.

They reached the cellar by climbing through a small tunnel in the basement and found the cellar divided into two rooms with heavy iron doors. It was extremely damp and smelly, police said.

There, police found computers Li is said to have bought for the women. They didn't have Internet access and could only be used to watch videos or play games.

Li fed the women only once every two days, police said.

Although he spent almost 15 days a month living with the women in the cellar, Li's wife told police she knew nothing about her husband's activities.

Li told his wife he couldn't be home because he found a job guarding the entrance of a company at night, police said.




 

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