NEW YORK (AP) _ Applying a law normally reserved for immigrant sex trafficking, a federal prosecutor accused a man of forcing a woman to be his sex slave and to work on his bondage Web site.
Glenn Marcus, 52, called himself “God” and forced the woman, identified only as Jody, to do a variety of sadomasochistic acts, Assistant U.S. Attorney Solette Magnelli told jurors in her opening statements Monday at Marcus’s trial in Brooklyn.
But Maurice Sercarz, Marcus’ attorney, told the jury that his client “did not compel her to engage in work beyond her will.”
“Glenn Marcus is not guilty because he did not trick or coerce the complainant to join any relation,” Sercarz said.
Marcus is charged of forcing the woman to be his sex slave, making her work on his bondage Web site and with violating federal obscenity law.
Marcus told his victim “It is your purpose in life to serve me,” said Magnelli. She asked the jurors to find Marcus _ “the man who calls himself God” _ guilty.
But Sercarz said Jody submitted of her own free will to a test period of bondage in which she spent time in a cage. He said she was allowed to go home but returned voluntarily.
