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Kansas: Hearing set in Asian massage parlor sex trafficking case

By The Associated Press - | Apr 9, 2014

? A judge has scheduled a mental competency hearing for a woman accused of sex trafficking at Asian massage parlors in Wichita.

A federal court notation entered Tuesday shows an April 24 hearing for Wichita resident Yan Zhang.

The trial for Zhang and her husband, Gary H. Kidgell, of Waltham, Mass., has been in limbo since January. Zhang’s attorney requested the mental health evaluation on the day their trial was to have begun in January.

They are charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion. One count also charges Kidgell with harboring an immigrant who was unlawfully in the country.

The couple is accused of recruiting women from around the country to come to Wichita to work at massage parlors, then coercing them into prostitution.