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No happy ending for owner of Norwood massage parlor
By adamg on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 12:31pm
A Norfolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted a Stoughton woman of prostitution - and minimum-wage violations - for the kinds of massages she had her employees give men in the Spa Bellissimo on Rte. 1 in Norwood and another spa in Brockton.
Terry Mussari, 50, was also convicted of not paying employees minimum wage for their fondling work, the Massachusetts Attorney General's office reports.
The office says that in the last three months before they were raided - in 2011 - some 90% of the spas' customers were men.
The investigation revealed that Mussari required employees, whether or not licensed, to give massages to male clients expecting sexual services. In addition, Mussari failed to appropriately pay the women for the hours they worked and deducted from their paychecks at will without proper documentation.
Mussari will be sentenced March 1.
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Comments
So I guess you could say
she stiffed her employees AND her customers?
She was doing hard time before
the conviction.
Neither overtime
Norwood
She rubbed the wrong people
She rubbed the wrong people the wrong way
This is illegal by law...
But should it be? I really can't tell who the victim is in a rub-n-tug situation.
No jerking around with
the Law.
I mean...
I can sort of see where you're coming from, but the obvious answer here is "the exploited workers who were making less than minimum wage for sex-work, which means they were either doing this against their will or didn't have enough cultural capital to do anything else."
Being forced into sex slavery is really really bad. I agree that legalizing it would help prevent that, but it sounds like that may well have been the case here.
Or they were getting tipped
Both literally and....wait I guess there was nothing figurative about this. So yeah, I'm sure they got tipped.
Sex slavery is certainly bad, unless that's your thing. But do we know if these women were doing this against their will? Meaning where they 'forced' into this with no choice? That would certainly suck.
To be clear I don't remember any of the facts surrounding this case and I'm not making a judgement either way.
Quotes
My earlier reply didn't get posted. Sorry if this ends up in duplicate.
Scauma Quote 1: I really can't tell who the victim is in a rub-n-tug situation.
Scauma Quote 2: I'm sure they got tipped.
Scauma Quote 3: I don't remember any of the facts surrounding this case and I'm not making a judgement either way.
For someone who can't remember the facts and who isn't making a judgement, you sure seem to be making a lot of assumptions.
If you remove your unfounded assumption that the women were being tipped, would you then understand how they could be victims in this story?
Assumption?
I thought I was asking a question? My tipped comment was in reference to the girls being underpaid. My initial question of 'does this really need to be a crime' remains.
Yes, assumption
You wrote "I'm sure they got tipped" with no evidence or knowledge that they were tipped.
In other words, you made an assumption that they were tipped.