Foot fetish company owner arrested on sex trafficking charges, accused of rape - BERITAJA

The proprietor of a ft fetish institution was arrested successful New York City connected Monday successful relationship pinch activity trafficking charges.

Jason Khan, who owns FootPadNYC.com resides successful New York City and Albany, New York, was charged pinch 3 counts of activity trafficking by force, fraud aliases coercion, national and section authorities announced connected Monday.

“This horrific behaviour has nary spot successful our city, and we will not let predators to prey connected susceptible women,” New York Police Department Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch said successful a statement. “The NYPD will ever protect survivors of intersexual battle and activity to extremity the deception, exploitation, and maltreatment of traffickers.”

An lawyer for Khan, 47, did not instantly return a petition for comment.

From astatine slightest 2019 to 2021, Khan lured his victims to New York edifice rooms pinch the committedness of hiring them to exemplary their feet, according to a national indictment. Once the women showed up to the edifice rooms to use for master opportunity, Khan raped aliases sexually assaulted them, according to the indictment.

Prosecutors allege that Khan vaginally penetrated 2 of his victims and forcibly put a 3rd victim’s feet connected his penis. Each of the unfortunate expressed their deficiency of consent to the intersexual activity, which Khan ignored, the indictment states.

All 3 of the victims reported the crimes to authorities, and 2 of the victims performed rape kits successful a infirmary successful the aftermaths of their rapes, prosecutors said.

“We commend the victims for their courageousness successful coming forward, and we impulse anyone other who has been a unfortunate of Khan, aliases knows thing about his alleged crimes, to do the same,” said U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton. “Our investigation is ongoing.”

Nicholas Biase, a spokesperson for the Southern District of New York, said successful a connection that “the investigation has revealed that Jason Kahn, besides a resident of Albany, New York, whitethorn person victimized further women successful the Albany area.”

He urged “anyone who whitethorn person been victimized by Khan successful immoderate way, aliases person immoderate further accusation about his alleged forbidden behavior” to telephone the FBI aliases capable retired an FBI questionnaire dedicated to the case.

The indictment besides calls for Khan to forfeit “any and each property, existent and personal, progressive in, used, aliases intended to beryllium utilized to perpetrate aliases to facilitate the committee of said offenses.”

If convicted connected immoderate of the counts, Khan faces a maximum condemnation of life successful situation and a mandatory minimum condemnation of 15 years successful prison.