Man accused of keeping women as sex slaves and grinding down their teeth
Timothy Jay Vafeades, from Utah, in the US, pleaded guilty after being charged with keeping them prisoner
A MAN branded the 'Vampire trucker' has pleaded guilty after being accused of keeping women as sex slaves.
Timothy Jay Vafeades, from Utah, in the US, was charged with enticing two women, who were aged 18 and 19, to come to his truck and then altered their appearance, keeping them prisoner.
He also forcibly ground down their teeth as he drove them around the country.
Vafeades struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors on Thursday, the prosecution said he imprisoned four other women in the years running up to being arrested in 2013.
He now faces up to 20 years in prison.
According to the , three of the victims Vafeades used a Dremel power tool on their mouths, and he also took out two of her teeth with a knife, so she had to wear false ones.
The women then had their hair cut and dyed, and one was made to marry him.
Vafeades pleaded guilty for kidnapping charges on two counts, in exchange for getting two counts of transporting for illegal sexual activity dropped.
Branded the Vampire trucker' - he wore false teeth with pointed canines, he was accused of attacking his 19-year-old victim when she said she wanted to leave him.
In 2013, Vafeades, 56, drove a truck known by the name “Twilight Express”, which she was working on.
Two officers at a weighing station in Minnesota, noticed bruises on the woman’s face and arrested him.
Charging documents detailed an old restraining order which they found.
After he was arrested, according to a report, a second victim came forward saying she had been held captive.
But Vafeades lawyer said he should not have been arrested because the restraining order was outdated.
One of his other victims met him when he was in a hospice – according to court documents he wanted to marry her.
However he began to assault her, after she agree to travel with him, and this went on for six months.
She then managed to escape.
Another woman was held on his truck for three months after he met her at a retail store in 2005. Authorities said Vafeades assaulted women he met online, and also at a college.
But there were no charges as the statute of limitations was up.
In May he pleaded guilty to transporting child pornography, and at the same time had a second child pornography count was dropped.