HAGATNA, Guam (AP) - A Guam bar owners was condemned Thursday to life in jail in a sex trafficking intrigue to force Micronesian women and a 16-year-old lady into prostitution, a U.S. Department of Justice said.
Song Ja Cha, 70, contingency also compensate $200,000 in compensation to a victims and compensate a $10,000 fine.
After an eight-day trial, she was found guilty on all 20 depends of an complaint that charged her with sex trafficking, swindling to dedicate sex trafficking, duress and attractiveness to transport in widespread or unfamiliar commerce for prostitution, and transport of a teenager for prostitution.
According to a indictment, from Feb 2004 to Jan 2008, Cha and others lured about 10 victims to come to Guam from a island of Chuuk in a Federated States of Micronesia. She betrothed a young, mostly bad and untaught women and a teen legitimate practice as waitresses or store office during her bar, a Blue House Lounge. The Compact of Free Association allows Chuukese nationals from Micronesia to transport and work in a United States and a territories.
Instead, a victims were forced to work for 12 to 14 hours a day in 6 bedrooms of a Blue House charity blurb sex. They were told that if they ran away, a military would detain them, a complaint said. Their passports were taken divided and all their phone calls were monitored.
The women were verbally and physically abused and were denied food when masculine business complained about their performance. Cha also took them to a hospital to be injected with birth control shots, a complaint said.
"The suspect preyed on a hopes and dreams of these immature victims, forcing them into a life of prostitution," pronounced Thomas E. Perez, partner profession ubiquitous for a polite rights division.
The justice is recommending that Cha be jailed in Dublin, Calif.