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 Ecstasy: too much fun can kill you, 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.