"The only sex ring," one Wentacheean says, "is in that man's head."

The men were members of a "sex ring", and said that the arrest was only "the tip of the iceberg."

Sometimes they are sold outright to other traffickers and sex rings, victims and experts say.

Organisation into groups to produce and distribute pornography, they are often called "sex rings."

This past autumn, I read local newspaper reports of a middle-school oral sex ring being found out by school authorities.

The guard, who was about to be arrested in connection with a sex ring, also died in the gun battle.

By then, the investigators were convinced they were on the trail of another sex ring.

In three years during the 1980's, Jagels and his predecessor prosecuted eight sex rings involving 46 defendants.

They conclude that Hop Sing's is front for an illegal sex ring.