Thai woman arrested for helping run brothel in South Africa

By The Nation

 

 

A Thai woman was recently arrested for allegedly luring another local woman to South Africa last year and forcing her into prostitution. The victim, however, escaped the situation and contacted the Thai embassy for help.

 

The suspect, identified only as Nanthanat “Ket”, was recently tracked down to a condo on Bang Na-Trat Road and slapped with several charges, including human trafficking. The 36-year-old has denied all allegations. 

 

According to the unidentified victim, the suspect promised her a job in South Africa for a monthly salary of Bt20,000, and promised to deduct the Bt200,000 fee from her salary in instalments. 

 

However, the victim said she found herself in a brothel, where she was forced to provide sexual services for three months, before she managed to flee. She said there were five other women being held in a similar situation. She also told the press conference that she has personally lodged a complaint with the police bureau’s Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division and named three other women, Dao, Joy and Tim, as co-conspiring with Ket. No details were provided about how these four women were connected or the city in which she was allegedly forced to provide sexual services.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30374846

 

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What do you expect from The Land of PP?

200k fee for what?

Finding a 20k/ month job?

 

One thing you do learn quickly is that a Thai will screw another Thai any way possible when there is money to be made.

Edited August 15, 20196 yr by Reigntax

If that's a photo of Cape Town's nightlife, i'm flying out tomorrow....

How peculiarly thought-provoking that a news article about a brothel in South Africa should carry a photo of Pattaya's Walking Street. But then again, maybe not.

Shocking to hear a Thai would do this to another Thai. There must be a misunderstanding.

Good to see some enterprising Thais selling their business experience to lessor developed markets.

And I thought that there are no Thai prostitutes? They are all over the world and well known for their great massage techniques. 

 

   

1 hour ago, thaiguzzi said:

If that's a photo of Cape Town's nightlife, i'm flying out tomorrow....

The Nigerian mafia has long taken over this part of Africa. 

 

   I might come with you........

and the girls had to put up 200,000 baht to get the job.  Jesus.  how desperate the poor things must be.  What kind of job was she promised?

2 hours ago, dcnx said:

Shocking to hear a Thai would do this to another Thai. There must be a misunderstanding.

Not really shocking. Every country have terrible scum.

 

Usually Patong and Pattaya beer bar the pimp is the farang right?

You can take some people out of the brothel, but you can never take the brothel out of some people. 

 

How desperate must you be to agree to a 200k "finder's fee" - even if it is spread out (no pun intended) in installments - in return for a 20k/mth. job? What was this young woman thinking?!

 

20 grand

- X thousand finder's fee

- less cost of living

= not much savings. 

38 minutes ago, djayz said:

You can take some people out of the brothel, but you can never take the brothel out of some people. 

 

How desperate must you be to agree to a 200k "finder's fee" - even if it is spread out (no pun intended) in installments - in return for a 20k/mth. job? What was this young woman thinking?!

 

20 grand

- X thousand finder's fee

- less cost of living

= not much savings. 

You'd be better of working on a Thai fishing boat.

4 hours ago, djayz said:

You can take some people out of the brothel, but you can never take the brothel out of some people. 

 

How desperate must you be to agree to a 200k "finder's fee" - even if it is spread out (no pun intended) in installments - in return for a 20k/mth. job? What was this young woman thinking?!

 

20 grand

- X thousand finder's fee

- less cost of living

= not much savings. 

Thai Math...makes sense to them

 

I dont think Thai's need a visa to get into SA?

Up to a year or two ago, they had a whole strip of massage shops in the Ambassador hotel "corridor" between soi 11 and 13. At least 15 shops, and they were all clearly "special massage". Never saw any customers except some Indian guys. No idea how they survived either - though they kept closing and re-opening. Now thankfully that entire building has been demolished, and all massage shops in front of the 7-11 that used to be Villa Market have been turned into......Indian restaurants. Not sure which is worse...
 
As for the OP - sounds suspicious - she claims she agreed to move to another continent for a 20,000 baht salary with a 200k finder's fee? And she had zero idea what the job was before moving? And she worked there for THREE MONTHS before deciding to stop? Nah. Very likely she knew exactly what the "job" was, the salary/commission she was promised was much higher, and she just had a change of heart after 3 months either because the money wasn't good enough or she got tired of getting banged 20 times a day. I know some girls who went to Singapore to "work" - they were promised 100,000 baht for 1 month - which to them is a lot, but in reality when you consider they literally have 10-20 clients a day and I assume not much tips if at all that works out to 166-332 baht per person. There's a reason those "recruiters" bring them there...

They can easily make 100k plus in Thailand - chump change.

Not the munters tho!!


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11 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

If that's a photo of Cape Town's nightlife, i'm flying out tomorrow....

Long Street, google it

11 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

If that's a photo of Cape Town's nightlife, i'm flying out tomorrow....

Certainly not Pattaya!! Too many tourists!!!555????????????

8 hours ago, Yinn said:

Not really shocking. Every country have terrible scum.

 

Usually Patong and Pattaya beer bar the pimp is the farang right?

Of course. Willie the pimp. 

13 hours ago, Reigntax said:

200k fee for what?

Finding a 20k/ month job?

 

One thing you do learn quickly is that a Thai will screw another Thai any way possible when there is money to be made.trir

True that... and will stand by and say nothing when bearing witness to a swindle, particularly if the mark is a foreigner. So I heard Lol 

8 hours ago, choff56 said:

What was this young woman thinking?!

She wasn't !!

1 hour ago, geoffbezoz said:

Long Street, google it

I just had to and found this link. Buildings are certainly more attractive than anywhere in Thailand and night time 0000's of people. I would have taken a 'once in a lifetime look' ----- if 20 years younger.

 https://th.images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrxhWhXF1ZdrSAAjinHTQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2poMXRwBGNvbG8Dc2czBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=long+street+cape+town&type=gsp_oprwin_00_00&hspart=dcola&hsimp=yhs-001&param1=1&param2=cat%3Dweb%26sesid%3Db4e7e61177387b9c237a9c37380c8933%26ip%3D115.87.128.247%26b%3DOpera%26bv%3D56.0.3051.66%26os%3DWindows-7%26os_ver%3D6.1%26pa%3Dgencoll%26sid%3D71a18c7db0126155871b610965ae659d%26abid%3D18765%26abg%3D22516%26a%3Dgsp_oprwin_00_00%26sdk_ver%3D%26cd%3D%26cr%3D%26f%3D%26uref%3D&ei=UTF-8&fr=yhs-dcola-001#id=81&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.robertharding.com%2Fprevieww%2FRM%2FRH%2FHORIZONTAL%2F774-801.jpg&action=close

12 hours ago, tso310 said:

Good to see some enterprising Thais selling their business experience to lessor developed markets.

 

Prostitution is one of Thailand's most successful exports. Go to any large or medium size town in so many countries of the world and you'll find them there. Few if any other country's 'public relations officers/massage specialists' operate in so many locations.

Unusual case given that there is no prostitution in Thailand. 

1 hour ago, yosib157 said:

I just had to and found this link. Buildings are certainly more attractive than anywhere in Thailand and night time 0000's of people. I would have taken a 'once in a lifetime look' ----- if 20 years younger.

 https://th.images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrxhWhXF1ZdrSAAjinHTQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTB0N2poMXRwBGNvbG8Dc2czBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=long+street+cape+town&type=gsp_oprwin_00_00&hspart=dcola&hsimp=yhs-001&param1=1&param2=cat%3Dweb%26sesid%3Db4e7e61177387b9c237a9c37380c8933%26ip%3D115.87.128.247%26b%3DOpera%26bv%3D56.0.3051.66%26os%3DWindows-7%26os_ver%3D6.1%26pa%3Dgencoll%26sid%3D71a18c7db0126155871b610965ae659d%26abid%3D18765%26abg%3D22516%26a%3Dgsp_oprwin_00_00%26sdk_ver%3D%26cd%3D%26cr%3D%26f%3D%26uref%3D&ei=UTF-8&fr=yhs-dcola-001#id=81&iurl=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.robertharding.com%2Fprevieww%2FRM%2FRH%2FHORIZONTAL%2F774-801.jpg&action=close

I was there 20 years ago, not been back since but even then put Pattaya to shame in terms of quality buildings and bars as you say.  Not  the typical cheap tacky rubbish fitted out for the least price you find generally in Thailand.  However having said that the Thai ladies make up for it IMO.

Edited August 16, 20196 yr by geoffbezoz

6 hours ago, Lingba said:

Thai Math...makes sense to them

 

20000 baht per month in their heads is better then 0 baht per month

13 hours ago, Isaanbiker said:

And I thought that there are no Thai prostitutes? They are all over the world and well known for their great massage techniques. 

 

   

They have all left walking street in Pattaya, and gone overseas, the police said that walking street was clean

Thai massage (happy) are in in EU also so whats the big deal about SA. ????

Waiting for the first post of a naive guy say he just met this lovely innocent Thai girl that just cam back from a 3 month working holiday to Africa

Poor girl. So sad.
This really messed up my weekend.