BEIJING, CHINA - A Chinese man was sentenced to
death Friday for holding six women as sex slaves in an underground lair
and ordering the deaths of two of them, state media reported.
A court in Luoyang city
convicted Li Hao on charges of murder, rape, organized prostitution,
illegal 
detention and selling pornography, state-run Xinhua said.
detention and selling pornography, state-run Xinhua said.
Li, who is married with a young son, had worked for the technological supervision bureau in the city in Henan province.
The 35-year-old dug the
dungeon in the basement of a residential compound he bought in 2009, the
court heard, according to Xinhua.
He then used the
underground room to hold women he tricked into coming to the property.
Police investigations indicated the six were held captive for between
two and 21 months.
Li repeatedly raped the
women, forced them to appear in pornographic web shows from March to
April 2011 and made them have sex with customers for a brief period last
year, the court heard.
Three of the women were also found guilty of murder over the killings of two of their fellow captives, Xinhua reported.
Source: CNN
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