Austin Powers actor convicted of torture for role in gang rape
Joseph Hyungmin Son, best known for playing Dr. Evil’s Oddjob-parodying henchman Random Task in 1997’s Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery, has been found guilty of torture for his connection to the gang rape of a woman the night of Christmas Eve, 1990. According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, on the night of December 24, 1990, Son and another man, Santiago Gaitan, approached a woman who was out walking her dog, pretending to be lost and asking for directions. They then grabbed her and dragged her to the back of their vehicle, where they reportedly pistol-whipped her, “raped her repeatedly, sodomized her, and forced her to give them oral sex.” The details only get more horrible from there: Son “also threatened to kill her, penetrated her vagina with a firearm, and counted the bullets in the gun out loud while the victim pleaded for her life.” Eventually the victim was turned loose, naked and blindfolded with her own pants.