Hispanic couple prostituted women, beat them and sold sexual content on OnlyFans: “horrible” accusation in New York

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Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office / Cortesía

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Jonathan Ruiz and his wife Charline Santiago were indicted yesterday in Manhattan (NYC) on suspicion of using violence to force women into prostitution and selling sexual content on OnlyFans.

Violent pimps allegedly too took the women’s IDs and used them to “fraudulently obtain government benefits and loans” that they took for themselves, according to New York Post.

Ruiz, 29, and Santiago, 27, residents of Youngstown, Ohio, were charged with a combined total of 15 felonies of sex trafficking, labor trafficking, money laundering, conspiracy and promotion of prostitution, according to the Manhattan district attorney’s office.

The suspects allegedly trafficked multiple women in New York City, as well as parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, and Massachusetts between 2020 and 2021.

Ruiz, who goes by the name “Saiint,” posted ads online for sex work and forced women to hotels throughout the Northeast, while his wife waited outside the establishments to collect money, according to the complaints.

Ruiz allegedly beat women, deprived them of food and forced them to take cocaine to stay awake if they refused to work, didn’t make enough money, or tried to pocket some of the cash. The frequent mistreatment resulted in black eyes, lacerations, bruises and scars, prosecutors said.

Ruiz also pointed a gun at the victims and forced one of the women to create sex videos on a porn portal amateur while kept all the proceeds after laundering them through a Connecticut company that the couple created, authorities said.

“It is horrible accusations detail an abominable scheme of sex trafficking that preyed on vulnerable people so that the ringleaders could make a profit,” he said. District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a press release.

In a similar case, in February Burmania “Nancy” Rincón, a former resident of Teaneck (NJ) who had fled to Colombia, was arrested upon returning to the country on suspicion of leading a prostitution ring in New York and New Jersey with Latin women. that same month, five members of a Mexican family who operated a family sex trafficking network from Mexico to NY and other states were sentenced to long prison terms.

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