A trio of Manhattan men held a female prostitute enslaved for two days in apartments on the Upper West Side and Harlem, forcing her to have sex with multiple additional "customers" until -- desperate to escape -- she jumped from a sixth story window, prosecutors said in describing a horrific rape-kidnapping case today.
The unnamed woman had gone last November to an escort job at an apartment on West 92nd St. and Columbus Avenue -- only to have her "John" steal her cell phone, money and identification, telling her, "You're not leaving the apartment -- you're working for me and making me money."
That first "John," -- an unapprehended man identified only as "Mike," struck her and held a pillow to her face when she protested, prosecutors say. The woman repeatedly snuck 911 calls on a cell phone she found in the apartment, but couldn't give an accurate address, and police were unable to save her, officials said.
The woman was taken the next night to a second apartment on West 149th Street -- where there were six or seven additional men waiting to have sex with her. "You do what I say in there," "Mike" allegedly threatened her again.
Instead, she climbed out of a window of the sixth-floor apartment -- attempting to use her jacket as a rope but instead falling to the ground, breaking both femurs and her back, according to the complaint against the two men who have been arrested as codefendants in the alleged rape-kidnapping so far.
Defendant Johnny Jackson, 53, told cops that his only involvement was in lending his apartment out so "Mike" could bring "a girl" over for prostitution. "She was OK with it," he insisted. "She didn't want to leave."
"My client is an honorably discharged Marine -- that's all I feel comfortable saying right now," Jackson's lawyer, Arnold Keith, said after Jackson and co-defendant Benjamin Gaston, 36, pleaded not guilty in Manhattan Supreme Court.
"The facts of this crime are truly heinous," Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance said after today's arraignment. "These defendants are accused of holding a woman hostage in order to essentially enslave and prostitute her."
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