Feb 7, 2007 6:44 pm US/Pacific

(CBS) PALM SPRINGS, Calif. A Palm Springs couple has pleaded guilty to convincing more than a dozen women seeking a caretaker job to perform sexual acts as therapy.



Gail Susan Leeds, 53, and her boyfriend Ananda Charles Rutkoff, 50, pleaded guilty to multiple counts of sexual battery and false imprisonment involving women who answered an ad for a bogus caretaker position, Palm Springs police Sgt. Mitch Spike said.



Leeds would interview the women and then introduce them to Rutkoff, who would be naked in a bathtub, Spike said.



"The women were told that Rutkoff had a spinal injury from a car accident and that the sex acts were legitimate therapeutic techniques," he said.



A two-year investigation led to their arrests last February, Spike he said, and resulted in their guilty pleas Friday at the Larson Justice Center in Indio. The couple was placed on three years probation, according to Spike.

