In Collier County Florida on 11/4/2016, Gary Cherelus was sentenced to 20 years in prison for two counts of human trafficking and two counts of tampering with a witness. Cherelus was also declared a sexual predator after pleading no contest to the charges. Cherelus coerced his victims with threats, violence and drugs to get them to engage in prostitution. He was part of an organized criminal enterprise profiting from the sexual exploitation of his victims.
One of his victims
wrote a statement about Cherelus, which was read in court by the
prosecutor. "At one point, I decided and accepted that I would
never be able to escape you and that this was how I would die. Raped
to death or, better yet, overdosed," said prosecutor Deborah
Cunningham, reading from the victim's statement. Cherelus's case was
only possible because she was able to flee through the back door of
his East Naples apartment one morning. Cherelus raped her and stole
$500 from her the night before she escaped, she told police.
According to police interviews with that witness, she first met
Cherelus to buy drugs such as heroin and cocaine.
When she ran out of money, Cherelus told her she "had to work for him (payments made by johns for sex) in exchange for the drugs she owed him." The victim stated that she would have sex with four men per day for about $250 but would receive almost none of the money. She estimated there were about five women working out of his home, and that when money would get tight Cherelus would just "work them more". Cherelus, she claimed, would keep "plates of heroin and cocaine" on hand to keep the women addicted. Police discovered advertisements from a website commonly used to solicit sex with women.
Cherelus admitted to assisting the women in posting the ads, but he denied being their pimp in his initial interview with police.
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