New | Producer of date-rape film faces sexual assault charges in Canada
51-year-old accused of abusing models, actresses - in charges reminiscent of dangers his party-drug movie warned about
A Vancouver-based movie producer is reportedly facing serious sex charges, after allegedly abusing a string of young actresses and models.
Raymond Ying-ho Law’s accusers say that he drugged, sexually assaulted and videotaped them, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday evening.
Law, 51, wrote and produced the independent feature film , which had a plot eerily reminiscent of the raft of charges that Law now faces. The film was about young women and the perils of drugs and date rape.
In summer, the CBC reported, five women approached Vancouver police and said that Law had assaulted them between December last year and June this year. He has been charged with 15 counts, involving four women, whose identities are protected.
He faces four charges related to administering overpowering drugs, four of sexual assault, six of unlawful observing or recording of a person while naked or engaged in sexual activity, and a single count of sexual assault causing bodily harm.
Alan Teck Meng Lai is Law’s co-accused. He has reportedly been charged with seven counts relating to the same four women, as well as a fifth woman.
Released on bail
The CBC reported that Law had been released on bail of C$20,000 (HK$146,000). He is barred from serving drinks to any female outside his family, from being alone with any unrelated female and has been barred from possessing any kind of camera or recording equipment.
Law and Lai are due back in Vancouver’s provincial court in about a month.
was released in 2011. The film depicts a group of young women and teenage girls who are drawn into a risky lifestyle of partying and drugs. Things take an even darker turn, with depictions of girls being given drugged drinks and raped.
The film is listed as a joint effort by Dolce Cielo Productions and Vicious Content Fims.
According to Law’s apparently self-written biography on the IMDb movie business database, he is an “entrepreneur and technology veteran”, having founded iSign Media Corporation and invented a wireless broadband video delivery system. The firm is listed on the Toronto venture board.
The profile said that Law ventured into movie-making after selling iSign in 2007, writing a screenplay for an unproduced action film, . A YouTube trailer for the film, apparently produced in an unsuccessful effort to secure funding, shows it to be a crime-action drama featuring a succession of young bikini-clad women and scenes of drug taking.
He followed this with , a low-budget production shot in Vancouver and Los Angeles.
The IMDb profile reports that the film was “picked up by Time/Warner in 2011” although there is little evidence of widespread release.
Law was said to be working on a gambling movie, , that his profile said was written with the support of star poker players. The current status of the film, intended to have been filmed in China and North America, is unknown. It is not related to a 2009 film of the same name.
