Chicago pimp convicted of holding 4 FSUW in sex slavery, tattooed with his name

[Larry1]

Some of this material is raw.

Alex "Cowboy" Campbell beat, raped and terrorized the young women he forced into prostitution or to work in his massage parlors, but it was the branding that gave a federal judge sentencing him Monday the most pause.

As he considered whether the convicted pimp should be locked up for life, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman recounted how Campbell forced the women to be tattooed in highly visible places — horseshoes stamped into necks or in one case with a 13-line, 60-word homage to Campbell down a woman's back.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-11-26/news/ct-met-human-trafficking-sentence-20121127_1_massage-parlors-life-sentence-illegal-immigrants

There is a photo of the tattoo he put on one of the girls at the link above.

Here is more:

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman imposed the maximum sentence on Campbell after a six-hour hearing Monday in Chicago. Gettleman said the term was fitting, given that Campbell branded his victims for life with forced tattoos.

"They have a life sentence -- all of them … and their life sentence at your hands compels a life sentence for you," Gettleman said. "None of them will ever be able to look in the mirror and forget what you did to them."

Campbell, who once operated the Day and Night Spa in Mount Prospect, continued to declare his innocence during a rambling, two-hour statement in which he repeatedly denied forcing women into the sex trade or abusing them.

Campbell said he was the victim of a "witch hunt" set up by the government to land a high-profile case. He also said he was stereotyped against because he is African-American.

"You are sentencing an innocent man," he said.

According to prosecutors, Campbell used emotional and physical abuse to force at least three women from the Ukraine and one from Belarus to work for him without pay. That included sending them to massage parlors in Arlington Heights and Chicago to engage in commercial sex.

Another victim, who testified Monday, said Campbell recruited vulnerable, troubled women to be part of his "family" under the ruse of helping them. She said Campbell often beat, raped and humiliated the victims. In once instance, she said, Campbell tied two women to strip-club poles and beat one of them with a hammer.

"Not very many words can describe what this man does except for evil," she testified. "He's pure evil."

Authorities said Campbell told victims he ran an international organization that could provide the support they desperately needed. He offered them jobs in his massage parlor, a place to live and help with immigration.

Many of the women also were lured into romantic relationships with Campbell, who sometimes went by the nickname "Daddy." After gaining the victims' trust, he forced them to get a tattoo of his moniker, often on their necks, arms and in other highly visible places on the body.

To maintain control, Campbell took the victims' passports and immigration documents, prosecutors said. When one woman wanted to leave, he demanded $25,000 or said he would send a sexually explicit video of her to her parents.

"He did everything he could to break them down as human beings," Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Grimes said in court. "He sought them out to take advantage of them. He is a predator in every sense of the word."

Authorities identified about a dozen women who were victimized by Campbell, but Grimes said the total number is likely much greater.

http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20121126/news/711269727/

What a subhuman scumbag. He's serving a life term in prison but there isn't really a punishment available here to make him truly pay for his terrible crimes. I saw a video of an interview with one of his victims. What he did to her was horrible.

[Miquel Westano]

So now the taxpayers have to support him for however long before he gets his sentence commuted.  Then he will be back on the streets.  Life never means life.  Why not just put him down?  He has no value to the human race and no reason to exist.

[Larry1]

So now the taxpayers have to support him for however long before he gets his sentence commuted.  Then he will be back on the streets.  Life never means life.  Why not just put him down?  He has no value to the human race and no reason to exist.

The US Supreme Court issued several opinions that make it impossible to execute a criminal except one convicted of murder, and even then it's usually very difficult.

[Larry1]

So now the taxpayers have to support him for however long before he gets his sentence commuted.  Then he will be back on the streets.  Life never means life.  Why not just put him down?  He has no value to the human race and no reason to exist.

The US Supreme Court issued several opinions that make it impossible to execute a criminal except one convicted of murder, and even then it's usually very difficult.

I came across this news story that goes into one of the restrictions the courts have imposed on capital punishment. Two guys broke into a person's home to rob them. They killed a man and his teenage children:

AKRON, Ohio — One of two brothers accused of killing three people and shooting a fourth during a home invasion robbery in Barberton is mentally unfit for the death penalty, a judge ruled on Monday.

Michael Hendon, 23, of Akron, still faces aggravated murder charges in the Dec. 31, 2013 attack. Summit County Judge Amy Corrigal Jones ruled that Hendon mental disabilities barred him from being executed under state and federal laws...

Corrigal Jones, in her 31-page ruling, ruled that Michael Hendon showed a pattern of intellectual disability throughout his life.

... Michael Hendon was first diagnosed with an intellectual disability at age 8. He read at a third grade level at age 15. He also scored between 68 and 71 on five IQ tests between 2000 and 2015.

http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2015/08/judge_rules_barberton_triple_m.html