Story out of Salt Lake City, Utah:
A Utah man known as the "Vampire Truck Driver" pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to a sex slavery case where he admitted to transporting women across state lines for months while sexually assaulting them. (He) changed his plea weeks before a jury trial was set to begin.
Timothy Jay Vafeades, 56, pleaded guilty in U.S. District federal court to two counts out of six in an indictment from 2014. Two of the counts were for transportation for illegal sexual activity. The plea agreement, accepted by the judge on Thursday morning in Salt Lake City carries with it a possible sentence of 20 years in prison. In May Vafeades also pleaded guilty to count 5, transportation of child pornography. Vafeades will be sentenced in November.
Court records state Vafeades lured two women aged 18 and 19 at the time into his semi-tractor trailer truck he called "Twilight Express" and held them prisoner for months. He forcibly altered their appearance and said he did not like one woman's crooked teeth and thought she had an ugly smile, so he shaved her teeth down with a Dremel grinding tool and chipped her teeth with an X-acto knife so she could wear false teeth he ordered to put over her real teeth, according to federal court records.
One of Vafeades's victims was in Salt Lake City in May of 2013 to start working for his over-the-road trucking business, according to charging documents. Soon after the victim arrived, she told Vafeades she wanted to go back to her home in Florida, but he threatened and assaulted the 19-year-old woman, federal court records state. He regularly beat the woman, controlled her with fear and didn't allow her to make eye contact with anyone. Cont. (Video)
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