Couple charged with using MySpace to lure two girls to their home to rape them

A pair of married strippers have been charged with using MySpace to lure two teenage girls to their home to rape them - and then take part in twisted orgies in a strip club.

Twisted Julio Rojas, 31, and Sophie Soto, 22, are accused of setting up an elaborate online ruse to ensnare the girls, aged between 13 and 15.

They are then accused of getting them drunk at their apartment - before Sophie molested the girls while showering with them and Julio had sex with both girls and Sophie, according the charges.

Bizarrely, the kinky couple are then accused of taking the girls to a strip club - and, despite their tender age, getting the girls to strip onstage and even perform sex acts with customers.

Rojas and Soto have been charged with 56 counts of sex abuse, promoting a sexual performance by a child, rape and conspiracy. They face up to 15 years' jail.

Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said that the couple "two obviously troubled young girls to their apartment where they were plied with liquor before being used to satisfy the defendants' own illicit carnal cravings".

He added: "The consequences of the alleged sexual assaults for the victims are profound and can well result in emotional trauma from which they may never recover."

According to the criminal complaint, Soto broke the ice with an under-15-year-old girl on MySpace.

Soto allegedly claimed to be just 18 and a virgin who had only been with girls before but who was leaning toward having sex with a man.

Soto told the teen she was afraid, and the youngster - who'd complained during one of their many online chats of having fights with her mum - offered to come with a friend to Soto's place in Queens, New York, the complaint said.

The two chatted online and on the phone - and eventually the stripper persuaded the young girl to send her 20 close-up pictures of her genitalia.

The girl's friend also did the same at a later date - and later they were both persuaded to visit their apartment in January 2007.

Once there, Soto allegedly got them drunk, had them shower and then engaged in sexual acts with them. Then, Rojas entered the bedroom and had sex with all three women, prosecutors said.

Later that same night, Rojas and Soto allegedly took the girls to a Manhattan strip club, which prosecutors did not identify.

Soto danced on stage and pulled up one of the girls to strip with her, the complaint says.

Eventually, both teens stripped and participated in oral sex with club patrons as part of the show, the DA's office said.

They met up for drinks and sex in the apartment twice more in February - once with a third underage girl - and again in March, April and May, prosecutors said.

The case came to light when the girls told their parents, prosecutors said. Rojas - a long-haired bodybuilder whose stage name is Wild Apache, the Savage - was scheduled to perform this Saturday night at a Brooklyn strip club.

Soto, whose Web site includes a photo of her mom, blamed Rojas for her actions.

"When [police] told defendant Soto that she didn't look like she wanted to have sex with young girls, defendant Soto stated that she did it for him," the complaint says.

The bust came as MySpace announced an agreement to implement tougher measures that will protect its users against sexual deviants.

Brown praised the move, saying: "This multi-state agreement will go a long way in protecting those who are underage and vulnerable to predators."

By Owen Williams, Jan 15 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy