Man is accused of having sex slave

A 19-year-old is taken from his home; police say they found a "slavery contract."

By THOMAS LAKE
Published July 12, 2007

The house at 7601 Jasmine Blvd., in Port Richey, where a man was arrested and accused of holding a woman as a sex slave.
	[Times photo: Mike Pease]

PORT RICHEY -- She is 19 years old, bipolar and schizophrenic, and on her MySpace page she says she will do whatever it takes to be your kitten.

She left home in Marion County last Friday night, and on Monday, local authorities were calling her missing and endangered.

By then she'd signed on as a sex slave.

It was all spelled out in a 10-page document, later obtained by investigators. It was called "Master Drew's Slavery Contract."

Her body would be his property. He could put her in collar and wrist restraints, brand or scar her at will. Clothing would be generally prohibited.

She would sleep four or five hours a night, rising to cook and clean and do the laundry. She would keep Friday nights free for leash training and foot worship. If she ever disobeyed, punishment would escalate from slapping and hair-pulling to leg chains and caning.

"He may hurt her without reason to please Himself," the contract read. "The slave enjoys the right to cry, scream or beg, but accepts the fact that if her Master tires of her noise, He may gag her or take other actions to silence her."

The contract was supposed to last five years. But deputies, acting on a tip, intervened on Tuesday and arrested the man known as "Master Drew."

It was not the first time he'd been accused of sexually enslaving a young woman whose mental health was in question.

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Andrew Michael Kobak moved into the house at 7601 Jasmine Blvd. in Port Richey about a year ago, his neighbors said, and he wasted little time in turning it into a porn factory.

His business card advertised Seductive Modeling, which promised potential models up to $500 an hour to star in adult videos.

Alyssandra Cardillo, the 19-year-old bipolar woman from Silver Springs, met Kobak over the Internet, according to her father, Tony Cardillo. Last Friday, she took off in a taxi with a week's worth of medication. She turned up at Kobak's house.

For the next four days, according to Pasco County Sheriff's Office reports, she was his slave. And he didn't keep her to himself, she told authorities: For a fee of $60 each, she performed sex acts on eight other men, police said.

On Tuesday, tipped off by a confidential informant, deputies went to the house and arrested Kobak, who is 34. They charged him with deriving the proceeds of prostitution, maintaining a place for prostitution, and possession and cultivation of marijuana.

Cardillo was charged with prostitution, a misdemeanor, though she was not arrested.

"Possibly," said sheriff's spokesman Kevin Doll, "she could be a victim in this."

Along with whips and sex toys, deputies recovered the contract, signed by her, but not by him.

On the second page, there's a clause, apparently handwritten by Cardillo, that prohibits the "Master" from involving her in any acts involving human waste, animals or children.

"Master" will not remove me from my medicine, she wrote.

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Kobak had been arrested at least three times before, although state records indicate that most or all of the charges were dismissed. In 2003, he was accused in a similar case.

At that time, according to a previous St. Petersburg Times story, police in Largo said he had met a 19-year-old mentally disabled woman from Illinois in an online chat room, bought her a bus ticket for Florida and took her in as his sex slave.

Pretending to be a police officer, he kept her in his house for 60 hours, abusing her with a riding crop, threatening to inject her with a drug if she tried to run, the police said then. He was arrested and charged with sexual battery, lewd or lascivious acts on a disabled person and aggravated battery. The woman was hospitalized for internal injuries.

The case was later dismissed, and records of it have vanished from public view. On Wednesday, officials in the Pinellas Clerk of Court's Office and the Pinellas-Pasco State Attorney's Office said they knew nothing about it.

Florida law provides for the purging of records if the arrest was deemed unwarranted.

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On Wednesday night, Tony Cardillo was still looking for his daughter.

"I'm kind of at a loss," he said, adding that he had her committed about four years ago after she cut her wrists.

Doll, the sheriff's spokesman, said she was in a safe place, under the care of a victim advocate. He wouldn't say where.

Kobak posted $15,150 bail and was released from the Land O'Lakes jail early Wednesday morning. Just before noon, when a reporter visited the house, Kobak answered the door.

"Please," he said. "Please go."

Times researcher Caryn Baird and staff writers Chris Tisch and Jamal Thalji contributed to this report. Thomas Lake can be reached at tlake@sptimes.com or 1-800-333-7505, ext. 6245.

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