REVERE — The owner of Crystal’s Day Spa has been indicted for allegedly sex trafficking multiple victims through the business, along with two employees, Attorney General Maura Healey announced Friday.
Geralda De Matos Garland, 57, of Revere, has been charged with two counts of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, keeping a house of ill fame and money laundering.
Lucas Sobreira, 29, of Everett, was charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 and assault and battery. Giacomo Neto, 41, of Lynn, was charged with two counts each of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 and assault and battery.
Garland was arrested in April 2021 after an investigation showed that she allegedly ran a profitable and organized criminal enterprise through the spa, which she used as a front for human trafficking.
The Attorney General’s office alleges that Garland recruited victims and offered sexual activity between victims and buyers for a fee, posted online advertisements offering commercial sex, arranged commercial sex appointments with sex buyers, collected money from sex buyers and profited from this commercial sexual activity.
In addition, Sobreira is accused of sexually assaulting an individual at the spa in 2018, and Neto is accused of sexually assaulting two different individuals on separate occasions there in 2021. The victims were not aware that the spa offered illegal commercial sex.
The AG’s Victim Services Division is working with victim service organizations to ensure victims have the assistance and services they need.
