.A Chinese man accused of luring women from China to American Samoa and forcing them to work as prostitutes has pleaded guilty in federal court in Honolulu.
Thirty-nine-year-old Fu Shen Kuo is to be sentenced on October 15th.
The federal government alleged that Kuo conspired with others from 1998 until last October to injure, oppress, threaten and intimidate the women.
The FBI says two of the women had claimed they paid $2000 to travel to the U-S territory to get jobs as cashiers at a grocery store.
But, they say, instead they were imprisoned in a karaoke bar and made to have sex with customers.
After six months, the women escaped by climbing down a rope from the third-story balcony of the bar.
