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Austin Powers Rape Convicted

Austin Powers Rape Convicted

Joseph Hyungmin Son. Austin Powers actor Joe Son convicted of torture in r@pe case. An actor who had a small part in the movie “Austin Powers” has been convicted of torture in connection with the 1990 Christmas Eve gang r@pe of a woman in Orange County. Joseph Hyungmin Son was found guilty Thursday of one felony count of torture in connection with the attack.
Son initially was charged with multiple sexu@l assault and kidnapping counts, but many of those charges were dropped in part because the statute of limitations had expired, according to Los Angeles station KTLA. Son, who played a shoe-throwing bad guy in the film “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” was arrested in 2008 when his DNA was matched to the r@pe of a 19-year-old woman who was @bducted off the street by two men.

Prosecutors say Son and an accomplice pulled the victim into a car on Christmas Eve in 1990 and drove her toward Huntington Beach as they beat her with a gun and r@ped her.

No arrests were made in the case until Son’s DNA was submitted to a state database in 2008 in connection to an unrelated vandalism sentence.

He faces a maximum sentence of 15 years to life in state prison. Read more…