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China man held on suspicion of keeping sex slaves

Sept. 23, 2011 - 14:27 By

BEIJING (AP) _ A Chinese man has been detained on suspicion of keeping six women in secret underground rooms as his sex slaves for two years and killing two of them, a state-owned newspaper reported Friday.

The Southern Metropolis Daily said that over the past two years, the man, Li Hao, allegedly kidnapped women who worked as hostesses at karaoke bars and locked them in two small rooms he had dug beneath a rented basement in Luoyang city in Henan province.

The secret rooms were located in a residential complex away from his home, where his wife and son lived unaware of the alleged kidnappings, the report said citing unnamed police sources.

A publicity official for the city's police department confirmed that a man named Li Hao who works for the city's technological supervision bureau had been taken into custody. The official, who would give only his surname, Li, declined to provide further details, citing an ongoing investigation.

The newspaper reported Li was a former firefighter and claimed he regularly raped the women and would give them food only once every two days to keep them physically weak. It described the rooms the women ate, slept and defecated in as dank and smelly.

Over time, some of the captives started competing with one another for his attention, the report said, and two of them ended up fighting. Li allegedly killed one of them with the help of another woman, the paper said.

He also allegedly killed one of the other women who was said to have been ``disobedient,'' the report said, adding he allegedly buried both bodies in the corner of one of the rooms.

Li only let some of the women out when he wanted them to perform sexual services for other men to earn money for him, it said. It was on one of these outings that one of the women escaped and went to the police, the report said.

Police caught him on Sept. 6 as he tried to escape the city, it said.

 

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中 공무원, 女6명가두고 '성 노예' 삼아



(선양=연합뉴스) 박종국 특파원 = 중국의 30대 공무원이 여성 6명을 납치해  구 금한 뒤 2년여에 걸쳐 성폭행해오다 공안당국에 검거됐다.

허난(河南)성 뤄양(洛陽)공안국이 여성들을 납치해 상습적으로 성폭행하고 살해 한 혐의로 뤄양시 기술감독국 소속 공무원 리(李.34)모씨를 체포했다고  남방도시보 가 23일 보도했다.

결혼해 한 명의 자녀까지 둔 리씨는 2년여 전 아파트 지하를 파 땅굴을 만든 뒤 유흥업소에서 만난 여성 6명을 유혹하거나 납치해 가두고 번갈아가며 성폭행해온 것 으로 밝혀졌다.

그는 또 구금한 여성 가운데 2명이 자신의 말을 듣지 않는다는 이유로 살해해 암매장한 것으로 드러났다.

리씨의 범행은 구금된 여성 가운데 한 명이 감시가 소홀한 틈을 타 도주,  공안 당국에 신고하면서 발각됐다.

한편 현지 언론이 이 사건을 보도하자 뤄양시 공안국은 '국가 기밀'을 누설했다 며 제보자를 밝히라고 요구, "치안에는 소홀하면서 엉뚱한 데 공권력을 낭비하고 있 다"는 빈축을 샀다.