A Missouri masseur repeatedly sodomized a woman who was “paralyzed by fear” during a 90-minute session from hell, the frightened victim told police.
The 45-year-old woman told cops she was sexually assaulted multiple times by a masseur on Friday at Oasis Foot Spa & Massage in St. Peters, where she was alone inside a closed-door massage room with Xing Wu Zhang, 61, according to court documents obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The woman told cops on Saturday that she considered leaving the room, but was worried what might happen if she decided to do so because she was at the location by herself, court documents show.
“But she told me she was ‘paralyzed by fear,’” St. Peters police Detective Erin O’Neal wrote in the documents.
Zhang, of O’Fallon, was charged with two counts of second-degree sodomy. The Chinese national allegedly sexually assaulted the woman using his fingers and mouth, penetrating her several times, KSDK reports.
Zhang also put his mouth on the woman’s breasts and genitals — and used a wet towel to clean the areas afterward in a possible attempt to clean up any DNA he left behind, the woman told police.
Zhang, who denied the accusations through an interpreter, claimed the woman had exposed herself during the session but he chose to ignore it, KSDK reports.
Zhang also told cops he was supposed to board a flight for China at 4 p.m. Saturday, prompting a judge to order that he hand over his passport. He was being held at the St. Charles County Jail on $50,000 cash-only bond, the Post-Dispatch reports.
If convicted of second-degree sodomy, Zhang faces up to four years in prison.
A woman who answered the phone at the business told The Post that Zhang had been hired in February before declining further comment.
Zhang’s employer, meanwhile, has said a surveillance video taken minutes after the alleged assault shows the woman calm and in no apparent distress as she checked out. The woman even thanked staff and said she’d be back for another rubdown, the boss claimed. Prosecutors now plan on verifying that footage, KTVI reports.