from www.thewrap.com – A mentally disabled young woman allegedly kept for years as a brutally tortured sex slave in Missouri had her pictures taken by Hollywood photographer Ken Marcus for the cover of Taboo Magazine, a title in Larry Flynt’s Hustler empire — a situation that sent FBI agents knocking at Marcus’ studio and the Beverly Hills office tower owned by the porn mogul.

The images appeared in two issues of Taboo, the Flynt magazine specializing in hard-core fetish pornography. While it’s highly unlikely that Marcus or Flynt will face any criminal action, they could be called to testify or face civil action if the woman should ever choose to sue.

Marcus first took the woman’s picture for the July 2007 cover of Taboo (at left; photo cropped and blurred) with fetish model Anastasia Price. Her “master,” a 43-year-old man from Lebanon, Missouri, named Ed Bagley Sr. (pictured below, right), was also photographed.

The woman was back in the pages of Taboo one month later in an interview where she discussed her relationship with Bagley, who took the photos for that feature himself.

Federal prosecutors filed an indictment Sept. 8 accusing Bagley, known as “Master Ed” in the bondage and sado-masochism community, of keeping the woman as his sex slave for over seven years, torturing her, threatening her and giving her drugs. Bagley also allegedly sold the woman for sex and bondage sessions, live webcam shows and strip-club appearances.

According to the indictment, Bagley met her when she was a 16-year-old runaway and enticed her to move into his trailer in the woods through promises of “‘a great life,” including making her a model and a dancer.

Prosecutors said the woman believed she was legally bound to Bagley for life by a “sex slavery contract” he made her sign shortly after her 18th birthday.

Authorities first became involved in February 2009, when she showed up in an emergency room in cardiac arrest after allegedly being suffocated and electrocuted during one of Bagley’s “torture sessions.” The sessions allegedly included a long list of violent acts over the years: beating, whipping, flogging, forced abortions, choking, caning, skewering, drowning, mutilation, hanging, caging, shocking, stapling and sewing.

Bagley was charged with 10 counts, including firearms violations, forced labor trafficking, document servitude and conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance to a person under 21. He faces a maximum of life imprisonment. Four other men are also charged for allegedly paying Bagley to have sex with the woman and watch torture sessions online.

According to the indictment, two of the men helped Bagley finance a trip to California in late 2006 “with the intent that the female victim perform sexual acts during a photo shoot” for Taboo.

In June 2007, Bagley discussed the Hustler appearance in an online forum for sado-masochists.

“My slave girl is in Taboo magazine, but it’s the July issue, she is in and on the cover … Also, the interview about the slave and Myself is in the august issue of Taboo … It was a very fun experience,” Bagley wrote.