'Violent' Naperville Pimp Beat Victims, Denied Them Food: Report

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A female victim's testimony describes a Naperville man accused of running a sex trafficking as a "violent pimp," who used "mind games" against his victims to force them into sex work. Benjamin “Beanz” Biancofiori, 38, allegedly used death threats, battered his victims, controlled their food spending, and stole their birth certificates to keep them captive, Chicago Sun-Times reports.

The victim, a recovering heroin addict, testified Thursday in Dirksen Federal Courthouse that she met Biancofiori when she was living on the streets without shelter. She alleges that Biancofiori then said she owed him payment. The victim testified that she saw worked as a prostitute under Biancofiori, seeing as many as nine clients daily, then surrendering all her profits to Biancofiori, according to Sun-Times.

Biancofiori is currently on trial for allegedly running a sex trafficking ring in the Chicago area for nearly a decade before he was arrested in May 2016 in Colorado.

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According to Time, Biancofiori's attorney, Andrea Gambino, requested the trial be delayed in the wake of the #MeToo movement. In the request, Gambino wrote, "“In view of the extraordinary attention to and enflamed [sic] societal passion on the subject of male sexual misconduct, Mr. Biancofiori cannot hope to select a jury that is untainted by the veritable flood of reporting on the subject.”

In 1997, Biancofiori, who attended Wheaton North and Glenbard North High Schools, pleaded guilty to battering and robbing 16-year-old David Kinkley of Wheaton. Kinkley committed suicide shortly after, Chicago Tribune reports.

Since then, Biancofiori, who describes himself on Facebook as "ll States Finest Self-Made Self-Paid," spent time in and out of jail before his 2016 arrest. On Facebook, many of Biancofiori's posts took aim at law enforcement and focused on his lavish lifestyle.

If convicted, Biancofiori faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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