James Warren, 42, and Beth Loschin, 46, brutalized a 15 year old girl during an S&M ordeal and "lent" her out as a sex slave to Michael Montez, a 36 year old Queens man, who repeatedly raped her and kept her tied up naked in a closet. The girl, a Massachusetts runaway, was forced to wear high heels and black lingerie and was repeatedly raped, sodomized and beaten over 45 hours inside Montez's third floor apartment. When he was done violating her, he stuffed toilet paper in her ears, wrapped two Ace bandages around her head and shoved her into a closet. Warren, who lived in Hampton Bays when he was arrested, allegedly met the girl in Internet chat rooms. The two discussed sex online. On August 3, 2001, Warren and Loschin, his girlfriend, drove to Wrentham, a Boston suburb, and picked the girl up at a mall where she worked. She was brought to Loschin's Farmingdale home, where she was allegedly held captive, beaten and raped repeatedly. Now, Warren's sister, Joanne, said she had been raped by him more than 20 years ago. She said she was 12 years old when her brother raped her on two separate occasions.
In 1979, he picked up two girls at a gasoline station in Watertown, Connecticut, and drove them in a stolen van to a nearby lake, where he raped them. He pleaded guilty to sexual assault but did not serve any jail time. In 1981, he pleaded guilty to sexual assault after breaking into a 22 year old girl's apartment in Watertown and stabbing her in the side with a knife. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison. Warren, gal pal Loschin and cyberpal Montez are accused of charges ranging from kidnapping to rape and sodomy and could be exposed to life terms in prison if the case goes federal. Loschin was released on $80,000 bail and returned to her home, where, neighbors say, she has lived for more than 35 years. Neighbors demonstrated outside her house to express their concern about her return to the neighborhood and demand that she leave. About 70 people gathered at noon on Lockwood Avenue outside her house waving signs reading, "Beth, We Want You Out" and "Shame on the Judge That Let this Monster Out." The demonstration lasted about 45 minutes but Loschin was no where to be seen.
In a 65-count indictment handed up December 2, 2001, a Nassau grand jury added 47 charges including two counts of second-degree attempted murder against Warren. The indictment says the attempted murder charges resulted from Warren using a plastic bag to choke the girl during sex on August 4 and using his arm to do the same on August 10. Prosecutors said under the law a 15 year old cannot give consent to sex. Michael Berger, attorney with the Legal Aid Society of Nassau County, said the girl told Warren she was older than 18 and she consented to having sex with Warren and Loschin.
The teen confronted her alleged attacker in court. The soft-spoken teenager admitted she never asked her alleged sexual tormentors to stop abusing her and did not try to escape because she feared for her life. "I was told if I tried to get away, I would be killed or my legs would be broken," she said at the Nassau County trial. The girl, who failed to identify Warren in the courtroom, occasionally glanced fearfully at the defense table where he sat and then looked away. Loschin has already pleaded guilty and is expected to be a key prosecution witness against her fellow "slave master." She pleaded guilty to sexual assault in November and agreed to testify in exchange for a reduced, four-year prison sentence. She was sentenced to the 4 years in prison in January.
Warren was convicted of kidnapping and raping the 15 year old girl and remained defiant yesterday, even as he was sentenced to 150 years to life in prison. He continues to insist he didn't force the girl to do anything she didn't want to do.
(New York)