The depraved ringleaders of a Queens-based, nationwide sex-trafficking and prostitution ring with “significant” ties to “China” posed for cheery selfies hours after a victim they targeted was “viciously beaten by a rolling pin,” prosecutors said.
The doe-eyed duo — manager Yuan Yuan Chen and her boss Rong Rong Xu — were part of a Flushing-based sex ring that extended all the way to Oregon and included hundreds of sex workers, most of whom were migrants from China forced to hand over their passports, according to U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace.
Prosecutors said both women made numerous trips from Flushing’s Chinatown to China.
Yuan Yuan Chen, 30, was indicted on September 15 after Xu, 31, was arrested last year.
The selfie they took together — just hours after allegedly siccing enforcers on rival sex workers at a Kansas hotel in 2020 — was included in paperwork prosecutors filed to deny Chen bail
In “complete disregard for the victim,” the two women “posed for nearly a dozen ‘selfies,’ smiling and having fun, hours after the victim . . . had been viciously beaten with a rolling pin,” prosecutors wrote.
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