A man wanted on suspicion of turning his mentally disabled 21-year-old girlfriend into a prostitute has turned himself into police.
Nicholas Geranios, 27, walked into a San Francisco police station Tuesday night and surrendered, South San Francisco police Sgt. Joni Lee said. He is being held without bail in a San Francisco jail and will be sent to San Mateo County in the coming days.
Police said Geranios, who has Redwood City and South San Francisco addresses, started posting Internet ads about a month ago offering the woman for sex in exchange for cash. She has a disorder that has left her with the mental age of a person about 12 years old. After each encounter -- police believe there were at least six -- the money went to Geranios, Lee said.
The crime went undetected until the victim's mother heard Geranios had bragged about beating and pimping the woman, Lee said. The mother called police, who brought in the victim and Geranios for questioning. Initially, she told officers nothing had happened, but once they talked to her away from the suspect, she told them everything, Lee said.
After that interview, the woman told Geranios she had revealed the story to investigators. Geranios, who was not handcuffed, ran out of the police station but stopped at the couple's vehicle and bashed in a window, according to police.
He wanted to take a cell phone and laptop computer with evidence from the crime, but the car was locked and the
keys were with the victim, police said.
"We're glad we got him," Lee said.
(mercurynews.com)
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