Family Accused of Brothel Ring
A mother and her daughter brought more than 50 Taiwanese women and girls to this country under a kind of indentured servant agreement to work in brothels for six months, federal prosecutors said today.
A Queens woman, Hsiao Pao Shih, 48, and her daughter, I Huei Chin, 29, of East Brunswick, N.J., were arrested at their homes Thursday on charges of importing illegal aliens for prostitution. Also named in the complaint was Shih’s son, I Tai Chin, described in court paper’s as the ring’s Taiwan-based procurer. The arrests were accompanied by raids on two brothels in New York’s Chinatown, and on similar operations in San Francisco and Lakewood, Colo., a Denver suburb.
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