Thai woman rescued from forced prostitution in Bahrain

By The Nation

 

 

A Thai woman has been rescued from forced prostitution in Bahrain, a deputy chief of the police’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division said on Monday.

 

Pol Colonel Mana Kleepsatabutr said the 29-year-old woman had been rescued by the Thai Consular Office in Bahrain on Saturday, and she was now staying at the Thai Embassy in Manama pending repatriation to Thailand.

 

Mana said the woman had been deceived by two Thai women into believing that she would be sent to work as a masseuse in South Korea, but that it would involve travelling to Bahrain to receive training first.

 

The two women took the victim to apply for a passport on March 12 and she travelled to Bahrain on March 20, after which she was forced into prostitution.

 

Mana said the woman had the opportunity to use the LINE application to send a message to her brother in Thailand last Friday.

 

The brother then sought help from the Damrong Tham complaints receiving centre of the Interior Ministry, which in turn cooperated with the Thai Consular Office in order to rescue her.

 

Mana added that police would arrest the two female brokers, who would face human-trafficking charges.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30341766

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-26

How come everyone else knows what the deal is where the Middle East, 'employment agencies' and massage is concerned? Maybe I shall ask that Nigerian prince I am friends with online what he thinks...

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Mana said the woman had been deceived by two Thai women into believing that she would be sent to work as a masseuse in South Korea, but that it would involve travelling to Bahrain to receive training first.

Gullible's Travels?

Woman knows bugger all about Thai Massage, so goes to the Middle East to train, instead of learning the art here in Bangkok..

Thai woman rescued from forced prostitution in Bahrain

By THE NATION

 

 

A THAI WOMAN has been rescued from forced prostitution in Bahrain, a deputy chief of the police’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division said yesterday.

 

Pol Colonel Mana Kleepsatabutr said the 29-year-old woman had been rescued by the Thai Consular Office in Bahrain on Saturday, and she was staying at the Thai Embassy in Manama pending repatriation to Thailand. 

 

Mana said the woman had been deceived by two Thai women into believing that she would be sent to work as a masseuse in South Korea, but that it would involve travelling to Bahrain to receive training first. 

 

The two women took the victim to apply for a passport on March 12 and, in her first trip abroad, she travelled to Bahrain last Tuesday, after which she was forced into prostitution. 

 

The woman was held captive in Manama, assaulted and forced into prostitution on the grounds that she had to repay the “debts” incurred because of her agents’ commission and other expenses.

 

 

Mana said the woman had used the Line application to send a message to her brother in Thailand last Friday. 

 

The brother then sought help from a Damrong Tham complaints centre at the Interior Ministry, which in turn cooperated with the Thai Consular Office to rescue her. 

 

Mana added that police would arrest the two female brokers, who would face human-trafficking charges. 

 

Mana urged people, especially women wanting to work abroad, to find jobs through the Ministry of Labour to prevent them from being victimised by traffickers. 

 

He added that witnesses of human trafficking could contact authorities via the police hotline 191 and 1191 or the Social Development and Human Security Ministry’s hotline 1130.

 

According to the Pavena Foundation for Children and Women, 127 Thai women called the foundation for help, saying they were victims of human traffickers, from January 1 to December 31 last year, including two 15-year-old girls who were forced into prostitution in Thailand. 

 

The 125 others were Thai women forced into prostitution in other countries, with Bahrain ranking at the top with 50 victims, followed by 26 in Malaysia, 12 in Oman, nine in the United Arab Emirates and seven in South Korea. 

 

The foundation also reported that 111 women had been rescued from forced prostitution in 2013, 153 in 2014, 200 in 2015 and 167 in 2016.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30341795

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-03-27

12 hours ago, baboon said:

How come everyone else knows what the deal is where the Middle East, 'employment agencies' and massage is concerned? Maybe I shall ask that Nigerian prince I am friends with online what he thinks...

Make sure you get paid $100 Trillion dollars for your troubles. 

 

12 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Gullible's Travels?

Woman knows bugger all about Thai Massage, so goes to the Middle East to train, instead of learning the art here in Bangkok..

cant teach stupid, properly took to it like a duck to water anyhow.

Not sure about this particular case, but everyone knows there are plenty of Thai

women more than delighted to provide this full service abroad. The deceptive

practice is they are not paid the agreed upon remuneration and have their passports

withheld. 

fast work . well done

 

9 hours ago, catman20 said:

cant teach stupid, properly took to it like a duck to water anyhow.

Only to find her "renumeration package" was not what was promised did she decide to cry foul....

Most of thai women know what there are going to do in Bahrain. Doing what they do best in thailand. Selling fresh meat...Give us a break......

Well done the bib. 

 

Now make sure the scum who trafficked this woman and forced her into prostitution are gaoled. 

On 3/26/2018 at 4:08 PM, baboon said:

How come everyone else knows what the deal is where the Middle East, 'employment agencies' and massage is concerned? Maybe I shall ask that Nigerian prince I am friends with online what he thinks...

 

Because many poor Thais grasp at the chance to escape poverty and have a low level of education unlike your good self.

 

The scum <deleted> that do this are very persuasive, good a pressure 'selling" and sugar coating, and the victims are scared of missing an opportunity, which they think might never come again, to escape the poverty trap.

 

There are bona fide Spas staffed by Thai and other nationalities in some GCC countries. They cater for ladies only. In the bona fide massage spas for men, all staff are males (and not gay).

 

Just as quite a lot of Thai ladies are falling for the romance scams, perhaps carried out by your friend the Nigerian Prince and his mates.

 

2 hours ago, Raymonddiaz said:

Most of thai women know what there are going to do in Bahrain. Doing what they do best in thailand. Selling fresh meat...Give us a break......

 

What a patronizing condescending comment. 

 

Of course some do, but many are very poorly educated to a low standard and believe almost anything if it gets them out of dire poverty. 

 

Or do you think forced prostitution and trafficking of females is just a myth and fake new?

2 hours ago, petermik said:

Only to find her "renumeration package" was not what was promised did she decide to cry foul....

 

Or was probably told she'd be trained in Bahrain and then flown to SK where she'd be highly paid by grateful Koreans.

 

Only they forgot to mention the forced prostitution and imprisonment part of the training.

 

I hope the scumbag tarts who trafficked her enjoy the pleasures of a Thai jail for many years.

In Bahrain Thai ladies priced around 5000 to 7000 baht, I don't know how much the pimp gets but I know 5 or up 7 girls share one bedroom apartment.  So, if one works almost everyday that could end up minimum 50-60k+ baht a month.

As for this particular girl I solute her determination not to accept to work as a prostitute.