A Hungarian man faces 155 years in the slammer after being found guilty of running a gay sex slave operation out of his Miami home, The Miami Herald reports.
25-year-old Andras Janos Vass (pictured) was convicted of human trafficking and racketeering by a jury in Florida last Thursday. Prosecutors claim he and two henchmen ran a company called Never Sleep Inc., where they forced young men to prostitute themselves for up to 20 hours a day.
According to court documents, Vass met three victims, all in their early 20s, online. He told them they would make between $3,000 and $5,000 a month working as male escorts and offered to fly them to New York City. When the men arrived, however, they soon found themselves forced to live in a cramped one-bedroom apartment with five other male prostitutes and perform sex acts literally around the clock, either with johns or on live web cams. The victims were not paid for the work, though Vass and his fellow pimps raked in around $40,000 each per month.
To prevent the victims from escaping, Vass confiscated their travel documents and threatened them and their families back in Hungary. In 2012, he moved the operation from New York City to Miami, where he was eventually caught.
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All three victims testified against Vass last week. A jury deliberated for barely 30 minutes before reaching a guilty verdict.
Vass’ henchmen, Gabor Acs and Viktor Berki, a former policeman in Hungary, are both still awaiting trial.
The 25-year-old pimp now faces a minimum of 21 years and a maximum of 155 years in prison. His sentencing is scheduled for June 2.
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Francisco Huergo
Those poor victims…I can’t imagine the threats, or how they found him out
Daniel Bujes
If they just decriminalized sex work this wouldnt have happened
Captain Obvious
Wonder if the people who didn’t believe white male sex slavery was a thing will chime in now.
Be careful wandering around outside of tourist traps in certain areas. Americans disappear all the time.
Jesse Erickson
that… is weird
AlperSefa Eray Kulcu Turkmen
men and boys too
AndYouWillDeal
Absolutely disgusting, I hope he gets death penalty! I’m so saddened by those poor young men who were tricked and enslaved by those abhuman things, hopefully they can find humanitary help 🙁
MarionPaige
Thank God someone in Miami listened to complaints from the victims. You have to wonder how long someone could get away with abusing tourists in NYC without the authorities doing anything. And then there is the infamous case of Police seeing a naked bleeding boy running down the street and deciding to return to boy to his “alleged” gay boyfriend (Jeffrey Dahmer).
Charlie in Charge
Terrifying, may he rot in that cell as he languishes there for 155 years.
Also, it’s a strange fetish that would make people have sex around a literal clock. I know, I know, I’ll see myself out.
Alex Rothwell
What a dirt bag.
Yors Truly
Giovanni de Lesseps
Blackceo
@Captain Obvious:
Who said that ever??
Ron King
That’s absurd when the housework get done…
No_No_No_Yes
Well.. Karma is a living being, with his little boy looks my money says that young Andras will have an asshole big enough to turn a bus around in by the time he gets out. His henchmen too.
Ryan Hall
Now he’ll hump 20 hours a day
dave lopes
20 years in jail is too long.
some murderers get less.
these were prostitutes who got taken advantage of.
Robert Young
And the guys who paid for it?
Kevin Cato
Eccchhh!
Kyle Jack
Why did they use the word “Hump”… That just makes it sound like a joke…
Mike Du Pont
Was he arrested on hump day?
Daniel Stone-Lingenfelter
Why let him take up space in our prison system, deport his ass.
Roger E Tedder
Ooh, I bet he’s gonna be somebody’s bitch in prison!
Juan Velez
Now he will be someone’s bitch in jail!
jwtraveler
@Daniel Bujes: How would that prevent psychopaths from engaging in deception, fraud, kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment?
jwtraveler
@dave lopes: Yes, and slaves were just farm laborers who were underpaid.
Brian Fetterman
20 hours isn’t normal?
John Smith
Hope he gets 20 hours a day on his sweet ass.
AlliterationAddict
@dave lopes: They were forced to work without payment, live in abhorrent conditions and had their freedom of action and movement drastically curtailed. That’s slavery. And in this country, of all places, we should hold ourselves to a higher standard that condoning slavery because they were ‘prostitutes’.
Gregg Jabarisidiki
Well he will be the Slave now , bottomed out ð???ð???ð???ð???
Adrian Robinson
I hope he gets what he deserves in jail. Bubba gonna have fun with you I’m thinking. Cause doesn’t matter if its men or women this act is still so barbaric and inhumane .
Cory M. Warren
karma is a bitch, huh, you jackass?
Ogre Magi
@Kyle Jack: I agree, that was in poor taste
Chris
I wonder if this was the work of Miami’s Human Trafficking Task Force. Read other articles and could not tell.
Anyways, I’m glad they convicted the perps.
Jake Judd
Wow. He’s like a gay James Bond super villain
Cam
I don’t like to joke about prison rape because I think that our jails need to actually monitor and prevent that, but in certain cases you have to admit there is some Karma in the thought of this guy going into the same sort of situation he forced on others.
Kevin White
He’ll be quite happy in prison… its a captive market….
David Conan
Mother fucker
Föx Archibald
A conscious decision was made to use “hump” in the title which consciously trivializes rape. You are a pathetic human with the empathy of an amoeba. I pity you.
Steve Scarborough
Okay but if I start working for this guy, is that a qualifying event for Obamacare purposes?
Demitrius Wolfe
Oh hes definitely goning to end up being someone’s bottom bitch in prision.
Hope hes stocked up on Preparation H?, he’s gonna need it.
Saint Law
Has anyone pointed out the likelihood of his being raped in prison?
Saint Law
@dave lopes: “these were prostitutes who got taken advantage of.”
You are a world of creepy.
DistingueTraces
@Daniel Bujes: The same thing happens to garment workers and household workers. Workers in any menial service job are vulnerable to this kind of abuse.
I also support decriminalization of sex work. But it wouldn’t have prevented this.
dave lopes
@jwtraveler: actually slaves were PROPERTY just like animals.
dave lopes
@AlliterationAddict: no one is saying it is right.
20 to 150 years is too severe a punishment. these were prostitutes dealing with some bad pimps.
dave lopes
@Saint Law: and you are a world of naivete.
dave lopes
And what is this obsession with you guys and being someone’s bitch in jail.
it does not happen as often as you guys think.
besides, these guys seems like psychos and would be the ones abusing others in prison.
jwtraveler
@dave lopes: “actually slaves were PROPERTY just like animals.”
OK. I’m glad you understand that now.
“these were prostitutes dealing with some bad pimps”
But you’re still not getting this. Someone who imprisons you and forces you to have sex 20 hours a day against your will is not a pimp. He’s a monster and sex trafficker who’s guilty of modern-day slavery.
Keep trying; I think you’ll get it.
dave lopes
@jwtraveler: Stop insulting the memory of millions of people who were enslaved and treated as PROPERTY by the legal system.
Any sound minded person will know that continuous sex 20 hours a day is not possible. So they had continuous clients for 20 of the 24 hours in a day?
You see why you come out as gullible.
Now that I have explained to you what slavery was legally, do you now understand that these prostitutes while pressured or forced were not slaves.
They could have escaped and get the full backing of the law. They chose not to for fear of deportation.
blackberry finn
@Captain Obvious: The only Americans mentioned are the prosecutors. But you know, all whites look and act the same…
BlogShag
How does someone even survive such horrors?