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The Enfield Connecticut BDSM website operator whose home was raided on the basis of an anonymous letter moves closer to resolution.
A woman who produced bondage and domination videos at her home and sold memberships to customers who watched them on her website turned herself in to police Thursday.
Michelle Silva of Montano Road has been charged with violation of zoning regulations, promoting prostitution, promoting prostitution in the second and third degree, and prostitution, Police Chief Carl J. Sferrazza said.
Silva posted a $30,000 bond and is scheduled to appear in Superior Court in Enfield on June 27. A copy of Silva’s arrest warrant was not available Thursday.
Sferrazza:
“She’s been talking very openly,” he said about Silva, known as Empress M. “We’re not going to respond to her in this venue. She makes claims that this isn’t really sexual conduct. We’re not going to get into that.”
Silva on having registered her home business as a source of adult content:
“I don’t think I would have gone through all that if I was going to do prostitution,” she said.
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Reaction of one neighbor on learning what was going on in her neighborhood:
“When you heard about it what was your reaction?” “Horrified,” Diane Delp said. “It, it, it just definitely stunned us.”
Web site operator busted for prostitution
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The Persecution of Michelle Silva
Comments
I’m outraged and upset about all of this. The charges are not true at all. Idont see any proof that they understand bdsm or fetish. They say i was having sex for money My website does not have sex in it at all. We are fighting this to the End. if you would like to help with legal cost you can donate to ctgoddessm@cs.com through paypal or contact me at pengladyone@cs.com I need to come up with 5,000.00 for my defense .
Posted by: Michelle /EmpressM | June 17, 2006 10:50 PM
I think that advertising “strap on p play” constitutes sexual activity. (vague term i admit— after all everything is sexual activity to some degree). i just saw Barak, and if ass eating i\ isn’t sexual play, what is? i don’t see that film banned in CT.
Posted by: worm | November 9, 2006 1:56 PM
I can’t believe the enfield police went as went as far as taking this woman’s undergarments and other personal items. Connecticut must be a very uptight State.
Posted by: Lisa | December 12, 2006 1:30 AM