Mama-san Cha and cops pimp Chuukese girls

From Kuam News:Closing arguments presented for Song Ja Cha trial owner of Blue house bar. Federal prosecutor Jared Fishman described the accounts of "nightmares suffered at the Blue House" detailing the stories of nine victims who were lured to Guam and stripped of their innocence. One victim, who resisted advances by customers for three weeks, was allegedly stripped of her virginity and innocence by a male customer who overpowered her and changed her life for a mere $40. Another, a female minor, only 16 when she was brought from Chuuk to Guam, forced to give up her virginity to pay off a debt to Cha. These are just a few of the examples of the torment endured by the victims of the Blue House Lounge. Fishman told jurors, "She promised them a better life. She created a climate of fear...took their passports, made them change their clothes and dressed them like prostitutes and forced them to change their names." He added, "The defendant stripped them of their identity. It was the first step in destroying their innocence."He explained that the scheme began in 2004 when Cha first went to Chuuk and began recruiting girls to work at the Blue House Lounge. He reminded jurors that Cha wanted young, skinny and sexy girls and paid finders fees to a man living in Chuuk, who was paid thousands of dollars in wire transfers to recruit the girls, which included his own 16-year-old daughter. "The Blue House was a place where men went to buy sex. The Blue House was a house of prostitution," he said. "She didn't even care she was sending a 16-year-old into prostitution every night."Fishman told jurors during closing arguments Cha manipulated debt to perpetuate a lie to keep the girls working, holding their passports hostage, threatening to have them put in jail and forcing them to work 14 hours a day to pay off the cost of the airline ticket and passport Cha paid for them. The prosecution said the girls were in fear of being arrested, as police were regular visitors at the blue house and were friendly with Cha. Fishman told jurors, "Officer Manila and other officers were just tools in the defendant's scheme. The defendant used police as her weapon...by telling you the truth, he has everything to lose, but his testimony corroborates the victims' testimony...the only testimony that was not corroborated was that of the defendant. She has every incentive to lie."

But defense attorney Howard Trapp told jurors not to assume that all of the witness' testimony was true. He was specifically referring to the girls who worked at the blue house describing their testimony as "self-serving words from a group of prostitutes who knew they were in trouble."He said, "They knew what they were doing was a crime. If they lied about being forced to have sex, they knew they'd go free." "They were afraid of being arrested, afraid of going to jail. They didn't want to go home to Chuuk, to poverty, to the lives that they so much wanted to escape." Trapp said the mere suggestion that his client was selling sex for $40 was ridiculous."Isn't that just nickels and dimes?" he asked. "I suggest to you that they (customers) were paying a whole lot more when they were inside the room. If it was happening, they're making money that Mrs. Cha never sees."His client, who decided to take the stand on Monday, claims she never knew that sex was occurring inside the bar. Additionally he argues that Cha is not physically imposing. "Mrs. Cha is not capable of beating the girls and overpowering them," Trapp said.The defense counsel added that despite some girls testifying that one girl who got pregnant was forced to drink Pine-Sol and was beaten, she never testified that any of it happened and never said Cha hurt her. "This is about Mrs. Cha's life, what's going to happen, don't just accept what the prosecution says happened. Mrs. Cha's life is in your hands," noted Trapp.

Link: http://www.kuam.com/story/14030348/2011/02/15/closing-arguments-presented-for...
Audio from the Cha trial http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kuam/custom/news/songchatrial_02152011_1.mp3
http://ftpcontent.worldnow.com/kuam/custom/news/songchatrial_02152011_2.mp3

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[dee2011217]

lmao!

[turnon55]

what ashame



[Alphill]

wat da....FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AKK! FUck u cha u chinky eyed fucking bitch! Burn that fucking place to the ground! Stupid ass chuukese gurls to even continue working there. If your being forced to have sex, report it to the higher authorities obviously low level cops can not be trusted. Secretly record what goes down there, and send it to someone in office that can do something about it.

[atinlockup]

thats why you dont let your love ones leaves the islands with strangers ! only a dumb fuck would ! fuck you , you money hunger minded fuck !!! its a shame for the

chuukese that struggles everyday to enriched their education & their lifes the right way ! jail Song ja cha & her so called ... CUSTOMERS , Freakin COPS ! who r u kiddin??? im tired of all the BS from you Guaminian ! Chuukese people in Guam, stand up together & put 'em where they belong..... (JAIL ) !

[leofredable]

mann fuck sab cha

charii tengiii fuckin chinkkk

[sat1hope]

omg y chuukese, y not get ur asian girls??

[QueenKar187]

AY!CHA NEEDS TO GO TO JAIL FOR LIFE!!!