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 Texas man sexually tortured for days in small Nebraska town
 Fri Jan 18  2002 11:39:56 ET
 
 A Texas man was sexually tortured and held
against his will for nine days inside a downtown flower shop by its owner in Wayne, Nebraska, it was reported on Friday.
 
 Business owner Roger Van, 55, is accused of luring 36-year-old Jonathan Cooper of Houston to the small college
town last month via the Internet to begin a "sadistic bondage" relationship.
 
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 Their relationship included various forms of sex and torture.  Authorities would not elaborate. Another
man, 36-year-old Jerry Marshall, also participated, said police.
 
 Van and Marshall were charged Thursday with sexual assault, two counts of assault, false imprisonment and
terroristic threats after a search warrant was delivered at Van's flower shop.
 
 Marshall helped Cooper escape after nine days in confinement, the AP reported.
 
 Wayne, a community of 5,583 people, is 85 miles northwest of Omaha in northeast Nebraska.
 
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