Chicago Man Charged With Forcing Mentally Disabled Woman Into Prostitution

A 36-year-old Rogers Park man was charged with involuntary servitude Sunday after he allegedly trapped a mentally disabled woman in his car and forced her into prostitution for four days.

Charles Nelson, who lives on the 1700 block of West Albion Street, reportedly picked up a 20-year-old Crystal Lake woman on June 6 and proceeded to hold her hostage in his car for four days without food or water while making her perform acts of prostitution with suburban men. The woman, who is mentally handicapped and has the mind of a 12-year-old, had been in the city visiting a friend.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the woman was finally freed from Nelson's control when she was able to access her cell phone and call her father, who in turn contacted the police.

According to court records, an individual who witnessed the woman being picked up had originally offered her a bus pass to escape but Nelson took it from her and said she would never be able to leave.

He was arrested in an alley in the city's Austin neighborhood on June 10, according to the Chicago Tribune.

Comments

[Andrew Mclaurin]

09:41 PM on 06/14/2011

This guy is the worst of the worst and should be castrated and put into a dress and high heels before being sent to a supermax prison.

[kathyboling100]

08:15 PM on 06/14/2011

He deserves a long stay in prison, shackled in such a way as to display his own body for who ever may want to use it.

And those "Johns"?? All of 'em. Sick and depraved.

[tamihunter45]

05:16 PM on 06/14/2011

Arrested in an ally? Where else do you expect to find a RAT? Gotta love "those people".

[Aldyth]

11:58 AM on 06/14/2011

This guy deserves forms of punishment that are illegal.

[lwolfmccall]

06:17 PM on 06/14/2011

They are things I want to say,but you @ Aldyth have said it all.

[algegra]

11:30 AM on 06/14/2011

Lock him up and throw away the key - how i wish that is what would happen to him. Seems like there should be a whole lot more charges - kidnapping, promoting prostitution, etc.... Hope her family has some pull somewhere or this guy will probably get a slap on the wrist.

[DL3]

08:18 AM on 06/14/2011

So sad. My thoughts and prayers go out to this woman and her family.

[Gardenia615]

07:56 PM on 06/13/2011

Sc /um Bag!

[Leah Vollmer]

06:53 PM on 06/13/2011

I hope he is given the normal treatment that rapists and child molesters are given in jail.