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For Keeping Women In Sex Slavery, Man Gets Life Sentence
Alex Campbell used violence and threats to keep four women from Ukraine and Belarus working in a commercial sex operation. He took their documents, gave them little or no pay and subsistence. Feds sentenced him for sex-trafficking and other crimes.
Alex Campbell, a former Glenview resident and Mt. Prospect massage parlor owner, was sentenced to life in prison Monday for sex-trafficking, forced labor, harboring illegal aliens, confiscating passports to further forced labor and extorting four foreign women whom he mentally and physically abused while forcing them to work for him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Justice Department announced. “The seriousness of Campbell’s crimes cannot be overstated, nor could the government put into words the magnitude of harm or the life-altering consequences of Campbell’s actions," prosecutors argued in urging a life sentence, according to a press release from the Justice Department. "An evaluation of the seriousness of what Campbell has done must…
