Sex Trafficking2006
United States US
The Pacifica Police Department reported that Kwor "Tommy" Chou, 29, of Colorado and Ri Luo, 41, of Oakland were arrested on suspicion of felony pimping, pandering and criminal conspiracy. According to the San Mateo district attorney's office, Luo ran an escort service that was actually a front for prostitution services involving women imported from Korea, China and other countries. Also arrested after an eight- month investigation by federal and state officials were Wai Chong Kong, 38, and his wife, Kit Chi Ho, 43, of Highlands Ranch, both identified as citizens of China. They are each charged with transporting people to engage in illegal sexual activity. The couple allegedly advertised the women's services online. The ads included pictures of nude or scantily clad women and listed prices of $140 for 30 minutes and $180 for one hour.
CSEC2009
United States US
John France Gonzales beat and molested a 12 year old girl for four years. The abuse began in San Bruno, CA in 2002. Eventually, the girl was brought and held captive in his basement in Daly City for 18 months. She was used as a sex slave. His parents were unaware she lived there. Her parents filed a missing persons report.
CSEC2006
United States US
John France Gonzales Age: 23 former pharmacy technician Gonzales met the girl in 2000, when she was 10 years old and living in San Bruno with her aunt, whom Gonzales was dating, according to former defense attorney Jeffery Neubarth. Gonzales molested the girl for the first time when she was 12 and maintained his relationship with the girl for several years while she lived in San Bruno and with her grandmother in Healdsburg. Gonzales allegedly took the girl from her grandmother's home in August 2005 and told her that she could not return, eventually moving her into a bedroom at his parents' Daly City home in October 2005, according to prosecutors. The girl remained with Gonzales until October 2006 when Gonzales' parents' home was foreclosed on, forcing Gonzales to move out and return the girl to her family. A few weeks after returning home, she told members of her family of her ordeal. The victim, who prosecutors say initially went willingly to Gonzales' home, reportedly told authorities she and Gonzales had sexual relations more than 500 times in five counties. Gonzales held the girl captive in the basement of his parents’ Daly City home for 18 months. John Paule France Gonzales smuggled food into his locked room and disposed of the girl's feces in plastic bags to keep her hidden from his parents, prosecutors said. "He used threats to himself, to her and to her family members to either play upon her sympathies or scare her into having sex with him for years," McKowan said. "Did he put her in chains and lock her in a bedroom and never let her out? No," Pitt said. But "because of his perverted sexual assaults on her over time, she was scared. He threatened at various times to kill her, he threatened to kill her family and he threatened to kill himself if she left him."