The State - News from Oct. 9, 1985

A Riverside woman testified that the man charged with holding her as a sex slave for seven years took her to visit her parents in Southern California but that she was afraid to alert them to her situation. The 28-year-old woman resumed her testimony before a San Mateo County Superior Court jury in the trial of Cameron Hooker, 31, a Red Bluff, Calif., lumber mill worker. The woman said they first stopped in Sacramento, where he said he had to meet with “The Company” to get permission for her to go. She has said that Hooker told her The Company was a sex slave organization whose members would punish her if she escaped. She said she introduced Hooker to her divorced parents as her fiance. “I remember she didn’t want me to go,” the woman said of her mother. “She hugged me. It was very hard not to break down and cry and tell her what was happening. I was afraid and didn’t want her to be hurt. We left and went back to Red Bluff.”