Police announced 12 additional felony charges against a man accused of holding eight women against their will inside a multimillion-dollar home in Sandy Springs, Ga.
(FOX)- Friday, police said Kenndric Roberts, 33, is now facing five counts of false imprisonment, five counts of trafficking a person for labor and two counts of possession of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Roberts was scheduled to appear in court Friday morning after waiving his first appearance at the Fulton County Jail on Thursday. He waived again Friday.
The mother of one of the ladies held against their will said her daughter dropped out of college and was promised a job paying $80,000 a year by her “boss.” The Roswell mother, who did not want to identify herself, said her daughter joined the so-called business Roberts was allegedly running back in August, just two months after she graduated from high school.
The mother said Roberts forced her daughter and several other young women to dance at strip clubs around Atlanta, but the mother said the girls were never paid. She said Roberts would buy them lavish gifts and take them to restaurants, but never gave them the money they earned. She said she only saw her 19-year-old daughter about four times from August to March.
“He is a dangerous man who constantly threatened the girls and even told them he would hurt their families if they left,” the Roswell mother said.