Bloodthirsty female sex traffickers with ties to China took cheery selfies just hours after victim beaten with rolling pin: DA

The depraved ringleaders of a Queens-based, nationwide sex-trafficking and prostitution ring with “significant” ties to “China” posed for cheery selfies hours after a victim they targeted was “viciously beaten by a rolling pin,” prosecutors said.

The doe-eyed duo — manager Yuan Yuan Chen and her boss Rong Rong Xu — were part of a Flushing-based sex ring that extended all the way to Oregon and included hundreds of sex workers, most of whom were migrants from China forced to hand over their passports, according to U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace.

Prosecutors said both women made numerous trips from Flushing’s Chinatown to China.

Yuan Yuan Chen, 30, was indicted on September 15 after Xu, 31, was arrested last year.

The selfie they took together — just hours after allegedly siccing enforcers on rival sex workers at a Kansas hotel in 2020 — was included in paperwork prosecutors filed to deny Chen bail.

In “complete disregard for the victim,” the two women “posed for nearly a dozen ‘selfies,’ smiling and having fun, hours after the victim . . . had been viciously beaten with a rolling pin,” prosecutors wrote.

The pair ruled with an iron fist, circulating videos of rivals being tied up and beaten by hammers, wrenches, and baseball bats to deter them from working for competitors or for themselves, prosecutors said.

Days after the alleged traffickers had another woman duct-taped and brutalized with a baseball bat, the women made depraved jokes about the attack, according to court filings.

“Serves this woman right to get beaten. Really, brought this evil on herself. After a period of time, will need to beat her again,” Xu texted her partner, who responded with a laughing/crying emoji.

Later that day, Xu told Yuan Yuan Chen that it was “too easy to kill a person in America, that it was like killing a chicken.”

Yuan Yuan Chen responded with laughter.

Xu was the alleged leader of the organization, and Yuan Yuan her right-hand woman, prosecutors said.

Chen boasted that she recruited 90% of the group’s sex workers, often women without legal status in the U.S.

She also pinpointed where rivals operated — down to the hotel room number — and had the idea to share videos of the beatings to discourage competition, authorities said.

On Sept. 14, a judge denied bail for Chen, citing the weight of the evidence and her “significant” ties to China.

“The crimes outlined in today’s indictment are among the most heinous we confront,” said Police Commissioner Edward Caban at the time the indictment was announced.

Yuan Yuan Chen earned about $10,000 a month, including $1,500 from a brothel in an undisclosed area of Queens while the organization itself pulled in over $750,000 with accounts held in Xu’s name accounting for approximately half of that money, according to prosecutors.

The organization also exchanged American dollars for Chinese currency, although prosecutors did not say whether the group had been funneling money into Chinese bank accounts as well.

Yuan Yuan Chen is a Chinese citizen in the U.S. on a work authorization but does not have legal status, while Xu has “significant” ties abroad and traveled internationally 11 times between 2016 and 2019, including five trips to China.

Yuan Yuan Chen and two of her alleged enforcers, Yichu Chen and Johnnie Kim, were collared after an investigation by a joint NYPD-FBI task force, which also conducted raids of brothels along the “Market of Sweethearts” in Corona.

Inchul Chang, a Queens building owner who photographed an alleged brothel operating in his building, said his property was raided, but the prostitutes returned the next day.

“For one glorious evening and the next morning the brothel was shut down,” Chang said. “Unfortunately, the raid did not make much of an impression on the working girls and/or their management.”

The raid on September 15 targeted 14 alleged brothels, but netted no arrests, according to NYPD, which executed four search warrants that led to the seizures of cash, condoms, electronic devices, and other records.

Most of the trafficked women are lured with false promises.

“A lot of the people that are recruited in their country of origin [into sex work] are promised they can go back and promised a better life so I think it’s very feasible that all these trips where they were going back is part of the coercion, giving these false promises,” Cristian Eduardo, a human-trafficking consultant and survivor at Shobana Powell Consulting told The Post. “It’s a form of abuse. It’s a tactic of control to give false hope.”

Eduardo said much of the prostitution occurring in broad daylight in Queens is likely sex trafficking.

“Probably more than 90% of prostitution is sex trafficking,” he said. “New York Police Department and the police in Queens can do a better job about really strategizing demand reduction and we do not need to wait until we have these cases to really start tackling prostitution and stop normalizing it.”
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Total animals with no compassion. Where are the media cries about asian hate !!!!!! Oh, i forgot, it doesnt involve whites.
Central american and asian criminals represent the biggest threat to our country. Gangbangers are number 3.

I spent a lot of time in Flushing growing up. Main St and Roosevelt Ave, The RKO Keith's on Northern Blvd. 7 Train into Manhattan. It's changed a lot in the last fifty years. The Korean's moving in during the late eighties and now it's Chinatown. Go figure

Yes , I Do figure CNote,........the neighborhood in which I grew up in was (as a child & young teen)..is now mostly asians & whatever...in my day ..it was all gentiles & jewish...I sometimes go a restaurant on the exact corner where I used 2 shoplifted candy bars from.( it was a rite aid back then...circa 1976..that restaurant is now a asian seafood joint.... which happenes 2 b very good...it is what it is ....those ppl throw trash in the street... they don't care about how they live... nor do they give a shit if a drug dealer lives next 2 them & so on and so on...

Absolutely CNote. You said it right. That area of the city, North Queens, has changed tremendously over the years.

What started out back in the early 1980s as a small influx of Chinese immigrants settling around Main Street in Flushing has exploded in population. Asian nationals, of all types, now permeate the entire area from Main Street, all the way up Northern Boulevard, past Bayside, into Little Neck. And from Main Street running for miles under Roosevelt Avenue through Corona, Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Woodside, Sunnyside, etc.

That area has become a bigger Chinatown than the "original" Chinatown in Downtown Manhattan.

Its literally unrecognizable to "old" Flushing.

Have either of you been to Bensonhurst as of late? Its 70% asian. Most Asians totally lack patriotism as well. Thats a big issue with todays immigrants in general opposed to the immigrants who came here years ago and actually love our country and embrace our traditions.

Yeah, Bensonhurst has changed a lot also. The entire area.

Mexicans are notorious for this. Its pathetic.

Most disturbing are the television shows and commercials
which totally don’t represent America. What the hell happened ! I cant relate to any of the garbage on tv ..
This started about 10 years ago.. Seems like they are trying to alienate traditional America and impose idealogy..
The exception is Yellowstone.