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A MAN in central China's Luoyang City was sentenced to death yesterday for keeping six women as sex slaves in a basement of his apartment for two years and murdering two of them.
Li Hao, 35, married with a young son, was convicted of murder, rape, organized prostitution, illegal detention and pornography by the Luoyang Intermediate People's Court in Henan Province.
Three women, who were among the six sex slaves and helped in murdering the two women, were also found guilty of murder. One of them was sentenced to three years in prison, while the other two were put on probation.
The court learnt Li had dug two cells in the basement of his apartment building in 2009. He kidnapped six nightclub and karaoke bar workers and locked them up for up to 21 months.
Li repeatedly forced the six women to have sex with him starting in August 2009.
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