Word: henshaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...knew them, he had sex with them, but what they said [about the prostitution ring] was not true," said John F. Sheehan, Henshaw's attorney...
When the two women were arrested, they said the ad was part of a prostitution ring into which Henshaw had lured them. Police had been investigating the existence of such a ring since the fall of 1985, when a student approached them and said she had been pressured into becoming a prostitute...
...Henshaw was also found not guilty of luring Maria Picciano, a student at Providence's Johnson and Wales College, into the prostitution ring. In the trial, Picciano said she was not a prostitute, but that she was lonely...
Picciano, who graduated in 1985, had "had sex with several of Henshaw's friends and they had given her gifts," Sheehan said. "Draw your own conclusions," he said...
Even though Henshaw was acquitted, "It was a case where there was evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the defendant," said Rhode Island's Assistant Attorney General, Robert E. Craven. He said a trial was necessary because Henshaw "was not willing to plea bargain in an way acceptable to the attorney general...