A former postmaster has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in the sex-trafficking conspiracy of a young, mentally deficient woman whom the feds say was coerced into being a sex slave for several years and was tortured in a trailer home in Lebanon, Missouri.
Dennis Henry, 51, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. Henry also pleaded guilty to transporting the woman across state lines for sexual activity.
In his guilty plea, Henry admitted having sex with the woman and participating in torture sessions. Henry told the feds that the woman was subjected to "the most extreme forms of torture he had ever seen." The woman's vagina was sewn shut as punishment. She was also locked in a cage. Henry never asked the woman if she needed or wanted help.
The case is centered on 43-year-old Edward Bagley Sr., who is
also known as "Master Ed." The
feds became interested in Master Ed in February 2009 after the woman
was
rushed to a hospital in cardiac arrest. Bagley had allegedly suffocated
and electrocuted her during a torture session. Among the allegations in
the indictment, Bagley is accused of sewing the
woman's "urinary opening and vagina shut" to demonstrate what was
"expected of her," nailing her labia and nipples to slabs of wood, and
performing abortions on the girl.
According to the feds, Henry met the woman in 2004 when she was 18. He believed she was being neglected, and he said she appeared developmentally delayed for someone her age. She didn't think for herself and struggled to keep up with conversations. She didn't even know how to use a knife and a fork, which he taught her to use.
In 2006, Henry helped transport the woman to California for a sexually explicit photo shoot. The trunk and backseat of the car were filled with sex toys, machines and devices. Henry drove the majority of the trip from Missouri to California, where he, the woman and another person stayed at a "dirty motel" located near an "alley filled with trash, needles and drug paraphernalia."
In California, the woman became scared, Henry told the feds. She also "melted" and withdrew when she saw a crank phone used to administer electric shocks. She told Henry that she hated the phone and feared the pain.
Henry is facing up to 15 years in federal prison without parole. His sentencing hearing has yet to be scheduled.
Henry also admitted that he visited her at a Lebanon strip club where she was forced to work.
Last month, James Noel pleaded guilty to his role in a sex-trafficking
conspiracy. He admitted that he paid to torture and sexually abuse the woman as well as watch others. Noel told the feds that he knew the woman hated being electrocuted with a crank phone, which was wired inside her vaginal and anal openings and to her toes, but he tortured her with it anyway.
See also:
Edward
Bagley Sr. accused of forcing woman with mental illness to be his sex
slave.
editor, photographer questioned in Missouri sex slave case
Dennis Henry admits sexing 'slave girl' on 'wooden
pony'
Marilyn Bagley comes to husband's defense in sex slave
case
Bradley
Cook allegedly tried to hire hit man to kill victim, prosecutor in sex
torture case
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15 years is definitely NOT enough time behind bars for these creeps! Oh, I know she hated getting electrocuted, but I did it anyway! What the holy hell! LIFE. Period. Nothing less than life would be justice!
why is this not on the national news?! this is one of the most heinous crimes I've ever heard of. and 15 years in prison? wtf - they deserve the death penalty
Presidents bush and obama both have said that what those men did is not torture. Are the presidents lying?
15 years for what he and other did is disgusting. Each and every person involved in their part with the torture and sex trafficing of this woman deserves the death penalty. Knowing that will not happen, perhaps the "big guys" in the prisons will be able to show these men just how it feels to be tortured and used as a sex toy. What goes around will eventually come around. I hope they get theirs; and for all 15 years, each and every day.
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