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DA: Woman Who Answered Craigslist Ad Held As Brooklyn Sex Slave For 8 Days

February 15, 2011 8:55 PM
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — A 27-year-old Wisconsin woman said she answered an apartment ad she saw on Craigslist and wound up being held captive as a sex slave in Brooklyn for more than a week.

John Hopkins, 45, has been arrested. The alleged victim said Hopkins held her in his East Williamsburg apartment on Humboldt Street for eight days. Hopkins faces a series of charges, including rape, assault and unlawful imprisonment. His bail was set at $350,000.

The Brooklyn district attorney said Hopkins told the woman on the telephone she could live with him for free if she cooked and cleaned. Hopkins allegedly paid for her plane ticket to fly to New York and picked her up at the airport. However, when she arrived at his home on Feb. 4, Hopkins allegedly told her she was his slave and forced her to call him “master.”

The woman told police that she was handcuffed to a radiator, beaten, bound, gagged and raped repeatedly. She said she was allowed out at least once, but handcuffed again when she returned.

The woman eventually contacted her mother in Wisconsin, who called police. There’s no word yet why the woman didn’t call 911 herself.

When the police arrived, they reportedly found the woman balled up in the fetal position on a bed. A nearby rope was found near the bed, which Hopkins allegedly used to tied her down. Officers also reportedly found a whip and a ball-gag nearby.

1010 WINS Reporter Carol D’Auria talks with a neighbor of the accused man

RELATED: N.Y. Rep. Lee Resigns Over Craigslist Flap | Trial Set For Aging Mobster After Failed Craigslist Scam | Mother Sentenced In Craigslist Retaliation Post | Cops: Craiglist Escort May Be Among L.I. Beach Bodies

Carol D’Auria of 1010 WINS spoke to Nestor Cardenas, a neighbor who lives in the same apartment building. He called Hopkins a very strange man.

“He’s just always mumbling things. He’s always been weird,” he said.

Another neighbor, Lizzy Lopez, said Hopkins didn’t look like a person who could be trusted.

“He looks weird and like snotty. He don’t say ‘hi’ to nobody,” she said.

Sound off about this case in the comments section below.

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  • Kate Johns

    HELLO—-HE ALLOWED HER TO LEAVE, AND SHE CAME BACK111111
    DOES ANYBODY SEE A PROBLEM WIT THAT!!

    • Js

      The article Does not Specify but he may have gone with her where she went to prevent her from running away or may have threatened her. It is amazing what fear can do. But since the article doesn’t say we will have to wait for more info and not jump to conclusions.

  • Jim

    Yawn

  • chris

    I did nto know Charlie Sheen had an alias

  • beytop

    she was handcuffed to radiator and was allowed out once and then returend, the only thing dumb about this it her. obviously he was wrong, but how stupid is she, to think these people walk around with us daily and breathe the same air we do and like previoulsy stated, probably voted and again obviously for Obama by a bimbo

  • JT

    DUMBEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD…

    Why Would She Return ?!?!?

    • Nancy Mallett

      I’m thinking either he was with her when she went out, or being in NYC not knowing anything, including where she was, she felt she didn’t have anywhere else to go. Obviously she had no $$.

      • Nancy Mallett

        Where would she have gone? Do you think a neighbor would have helped? In NYC I seriously doubt anyone would have helped her. In NYC they’ll step over a dying person without thinking twice!

  • http://PetrBuben.blogspot.com Petr Buben

    maybe youl like rough. bad taste at the least

  • Chris

    “She said she was allowed out at least once, but handcuffed again when she returned.”

    Uh…what am I missing?

  • sailordude

    shes probably an illegal

  • Ron

    Well, guilty or not, he will be a no show for a while and she must be absolutly stupid!

  • Father of 4

    Yeah, After 8 day she called her Mother not 911. I wonder how this will turn out?

    • Father of 5

      OK, he lets her use a computer to get her email. That’s pretty stupid. Tell me, if you have 2 minutes to get off one email do you know the email address of the local PD or would you email someone you know will get your help? Emailing mom was the right thing to do. He may not have given her time to google for the email address of the local PD and you can’t dial 911 from an email.

      • MrSpkr

        And this explains her LEAVING then COMING BACK how?

  • dennis

    I will let you live with me for free if you will clean and cook for me. Where do I sign up? But I don’t do windows.

    • Mike Sulhoff

      To be fair, that actually sounds a bit like the definition of slavery…

  • Drew

    She Emailed her mother first, Thats weird, If I was in a situation like that the Police would have been my first Contact. This story is leaving out to many details

    • dennis

      This woman went to the same journalism school as that idiot Chris Mathews. I wonder if she had a tingle going up her leg when she wrote this story.

  • BobM54

    I’m sure she voted for Obama too… Dumb is dumb!

    • http://PetrBuben.blogspot.com Petr Buben

      well nobody ever voted for Bush, he got selected anyways ….. Obama is the best republican president in a generation

      • ElCid

        I voted for GW and I would do it again. Btw, he was elected for two terms despite Gore and the Dems trying to steal the first term.

        • Emery

          moron…..

          • I SECOND THAT

            …LITERALLY :-)

      • Coast2co

        The reality is the Gore campaign recounted what 3-4 times to get the votes and Gore was the one who decided where to count. The State of Florida says you count 1 time not 3-4 times until you get your numbers. Thats why the counting stopped. Gore should of declared the entire state as a recount. But then Bush may have picked up votes also. So its more like 3-4 counts is Gore tried to steal the election. Especially when you put a ballot under a magnifying glass to see if it has a dimple on it.

        Obama is a Communist and not a capitalist sorry the Democrats own him. And now he isn’t working out so he tries to play centrist but he doesn’t know how.

      • kbworkman

        Are you still spreading that lie?

      • LibwithIQ

        Sorry Petr…get some facts instead of leftwing lies. Bush won fair and square. Recounted time and again and still won. Give it a rest.

      • http://PetrBuben.blogspot.com Petr Buben

        Obama is not communist and neither is he fascist. He is pro America, but what can a president do? the real rulers would and did silence him.

        To the best of my memories, Bush was never elected neither of two elections.

        Then came VVTC 9II controlled demolition inside operation – per irrefutable scientific evidence ….

        that’d be real hard on a slave nation to see and accept the truth !!!!!!! —– tell a slave they are being abused, and they’l turn on you

        we need runoff election multi-party system

        • Gene

          I think it’s time for your medications, Petr.

      • Kevin

        They have meds for that.

      • Hal McCombs

        Still got your Bush Derangement Syndrome, eh? You really need to see a shrink.

  • http://PetrBuben.blogspot.com Petr Buben

    completely silly or imbecillistic get-me-traffic news …… what slave if she went out and back?

    • Brian

      I was wondering why she went back myself. By the way, East Williamsburg is just a made up name by real estate agents who want to rent out apartments to idiots from the Midwest who don’t know they’re in Bushwick, one of the worst neighborhoods in New York City.

      • Nancy Mallett

        Which is probably why she went back! NYC is a very intimidating environment. No one would help you if you were on fire! Women are raped in the open and no one stops to help! What makes you think if this woman left the apt. she would have been able to get help from anyone?

  • Scottm1207

    Reporters no longer need to be cogent and literate to be a reporter. they just need to pass the leftist indoctrination in college and then they’re let loose to parrot the party line. This leftbot is just awaiting her turn for the big time when she can become a mouthpiece for one of the government controlled media outlets..

  • Mark

    This reporter needs to go back to school. This is one of the most poorly written stories I have ever seen. I can’t believe that someone is getting paid to write such an incomplete article.

  • steve

    Just laying the groundwork for a lawsuit against Craigslist…..

  • Da da

    I don`t knowwhois crazier,himor her. She was kinda stupid for checking out somethinglike that alone. But still no excuse for what he did to her.

  • Otowner

    I feel for this poor woman, but find it hard to believe someone in the US, from the US, in 2011 answers an ad that says “you can live with me for free if you cook and clean”. Yeah, I’m sure he’ll be a swell upstanding chap

    • Roze

      I am sure she was an illegal and this was extremely scary for her. I don’t want illegals in this country as much as the next person but the comments are ridiculous. Nice to know how humanity feels about sexual violence, look at the Lara? Logan comments….

  • Brennan Huff

    It was Johnny Hopkins, and Sloan Kettering, and they were blazin that sh!t up everyday….

    • Anderson Banks Plunket

      niiice reference!!!

  • Blah

    Uh, because the reporter doesn’t give more detail, we don’t know whether she was let out of the house or the handcuffs, people. Somehow, I don’t believe she ever wanted to be handcuffed to a radiator…

    • Spring Byington

      No, unless the reporter is wrong. It clearly says, “She said she was allowed OUT at least once, but handcuffed again when she returned.” If she was only let out of handcuffs, “handcuffed again when she returned” makes no sense.

  • Carlos Liriano

    yes DanTe. is call the nut house

  • ricardo09

    The reporter needs to take a course in journalism…. She reports that the lady (sex slave) was “allowed out” but was hand cuffed when she returned?

    It needs a little more in depth explanation… Just does not seem to make sense.

  • me, myself and I

    She must have been up for it if she answered an ad on craaigslist. And to be allowed out atleast once before she returned to be handcuffed again? Something wrong there. Her fault, sounds like she wanted it.

  • DanTe

    “She was allowed out at least once”? And she went back????

    Shouldn’t she be placed in a special home for special folks?

    • ohsnap

      Yeah via the short bus.

      • sce341

        I don’t find your comment very funny, ohsnap, this woman obviously has some kind of psychological or neurological problem, perhaps she is autistic (asperger’s disorder), they tend to be very naive.

        There is more to this story than is being reported here I would bet.

        CBS HOW ABOUT A FOLLOW UP ON THIS STORY????

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