Picture: Daily News

 

When a woman named only as A, aged 18, took B aged just 16 to a short time room in Kanchanaburi, polce were waiting inside.

 

The ATPD - Thailand's anti-human trafficking force - had received information about girls under the age of 18 being offered in the Tha Muang area, reported Daily News.

 

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They arranged to part with 1,200 baht plus room cost and A arrived with the girl B on a motorcycle.

 

A was arrested for human trafficking. B was taken into care. 

 

Picture: Daily News

 

A admitted to working with B for a year. She always kept the money as she needed it to fuel her boyfriend's drug habit and her own gambling addiction.

 

If B needed money she had to apply for it.

 

Social services noted that B had lived like a virtual slave with no options but to do as her master said. 

 

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Name and shame and please make an example of these despicable scums.

Tip of the iceberg unfortunately and no photo op for BJ must have been his week off ????  

7 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

All falangs assume bar girls there on their own free will. Assume they love drinking 30 beers a night.

 

I do think prostitution should be legal, but now there is a chance you are paying a slave.

 

falang not care…….LOS, eyes closed, mind believe everything good.   

 

This was a Thai madam, Thai girl, Thai customers ...... no bars either.

2 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Tip of the iceberg unfortunately and no photo op for BJ must have been his week off ????  

Unfortunate intended pun ?

7 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

1.  Nobody Thai reads this site

So make a topic about foreigners when it has nothing to do with foreigners?  Just because you're concerned about victims of sex trafficking?  Not because you have an issue with foreigners so want to say something bad about them?  Suuuuure...

 

7 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

2.  Anti-falang means all foreigners, to me.   you can be a black American and you're not white

Not really the point.

 

7 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

3.  Somebody reading this might feel guilty the next time they drag a drunk girl from a bar

4.  bar/short-time room.......there is one degree of separation

Yes, a sex predatory sex maniac is totally going to see you slagging off foreigners and change their ways... /s ????

 

7 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

5.  sex trafficking is sex trafficking and falangs do it.....they just say "oh, she's here because she's happy and trying to make a better life for herself."

Whilst sex trafficking is indeed sex trafficking, I seriously doubt any foreigners "traffic" girls.  There's a chance, but it wouldn't be as common as you suggest.

 

Meeting a girl in a bar who has been trafficked would not make a person a trafficker of that girl.  I'm not even sure that what is happening in the above article actually meets the definition of sex trafficking.

 

7 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

keep telling yourself that.

 

OK, I'll admit I was told by a falang he did something like this;  girl underage, some weird place, paid a madam or whatever, and he was so proud of himself..........and I really ended up hating that guy because of it.

That's gross and all, but it doesn't make every foreigner, or even every foreigner who uses the services of bar girls, a sex trafficker.

 

7 minutes ago, Iamfalang said:

so there's that.......

Meh. 

3 hours ago, RandiRona said:

Name and shame and please make an example of these despicable scums.

Why, do you think many of the locals in Kanchanaburi will read this here?

 

I'm sure the local community will know who they are and what's going on already.

7 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

All falangs assume bar girls there on their own free will. Assume they love drinking 30 beers a night.

 

I do think prostitution should be legal, but now there is a chance you are paying a slave.

 

falang not care…….LOS, eyes closed, mind believe everything good.   

To me it seems like you are the one with closed eyes, or far too little experience of Thailand. What about all foreigners assume.....???? What about foreigners don´t care.......???? Eyes closed, and a mind that see everything as good...?????  You put yourself as a superior, buy feeding pure lies online.

Not an asset to humanity
 

5 hours ago, RandiRona said:

Name and shame and please make an example of these despicable scums.

Pol. Lt. Col. Somch... Oh, it was a member of the public this time.  

3 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

1.  Nobody Thai reads this site

The report comes from a Thai Daily News.

Thainess? 

3 hours ago, RJRS1301 said:

Unfortunate intended pun ?

7 hours ago, RandiRona said:

Name and shame and please make an example of these despicable scums.

18-year-old Miss Namthip Maniniam

https://siamrath.co.th/n/337680

 

Saw docu about Pattaya. Russian mob luring Russian girls to Thailand.

The passport taken and forced to be prostitutes.

As long as the girls didnt made a complaint towards pimps, nothing could be done.

So how is that running, saw docu already years ago.?

44 minutes ago, Skeptic7 said:

Vast majority are in Nana and Cowboy and Pattaya's Playgrounds and Beer Bars by their own choosing. I've known hundreds of them over my 27 years here and interviewed many. None were forced to do anything by anyone. Free to come and go and do as they pleased. They generally had considerably more control and say than the mamasans and owners. Not forced in the venues I mentioned. Sure, they run into A-hole jerk offs at times and many have told me their stories, but it was fortunately infrequent...but that is a whole different topic.

 

Trafficking here is predominantly Thai on Thai or Thai on Lao/Burmese/Cambo etc and forced "services" provided to Thais. 

Spot on and that is my understanding and knowledge of it also in my time here, which is the same as yours!

 

Well said.

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

My wife was, so were hers sisters, while were on the topic of bar girls, where did you meet your wife, in a shopping centre ?  

 

No,

 

his wife probably worked in the bank but just helped the bar out when they were short staffed, .....as a Cashier! ????

57 minutes ago, xtrnuno41 said:

Saw docu about Pattaya. Russian mob luring Russian girls to Thailand.

The passport taken and forced to be prostitutes.

As long as the girls didnt made a complaint towards pimps, nothing could be done.

So how is that running, saw docu already years ago.?

And this is relevant how??

Alcoholism.................

Drug addiction........

 

Target these, above prostitution, surely.

9 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

do think prostitution should be legal, but now there is a chance you are paying a slave.

Oh please.

 

Your most likely feeding an extremely poor family in the North East.

5 hours ago, sead said:

Most girls in the bar is. There's even loads of old farangs driving their gf to bars agogis etc and pick them up afterwards. I love when the man pick her up ang gives her a nice kiss haha after she has been kissing 20 strangers

In 40 years of coming here and living here I have never seen a Falang do that. Plenty of Thai boyfriends on the other hand. In Bangkok and Pattaya.

6 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

it may sound like an "L" and many Thais do pronounce it that way.

Pronunciation is just that, how it's pronounced, that is, heard by the receiver, the mechanics of that are irrelevant . 

53 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

35 minutes ago, Doctor Tom said:

My g/f is not from Issan and she says it may look like farang in written form, but it is popularly pronounced falang. Just as Sawadee Krap as a normal greeting  is usually pronounced as one word, often shortened to 'waddycap' 

53 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

That's not right. Thai's sound like they are pronouncing the "R" as an "L" but in fact educated Thais do pronounce the "R". To the untrained western ear, it may sound like an "L" and many Thais do pronounce it that way.

 

I recall a time I went to Starbucks in Central Festival in Pattaya and thanked the barista with "Sawatdee Krup". He responded with extra emphasis on the "R" with a big smile on his face. I guess he felt embarrassed not to. Many Thais drop the "R" in "Krup" altogether but educated Thais don't if they are in any kind of formal setting.

 

The "R" in Thai is not a soft, rolling "R" as it is in English but has a short glottal stop but it definitely is there and is not an "L".

You may come across the occasional educated Thai who use pin point correct pronunciation, but most of us don't. And when the average Joe (or Jill) hears a word (from any unfamiliar language) and wants to write it down phonetically, they will inevitably write it as it sounds. Therefor if they hear 'falang' they will write 'falang' and I can see nothing wrong with that.

 

If you knew only the Latin-script English letters but hadn't yet learned any spelling, how would you write down the following words phonetically having only heard them:

 

Asthma, Colonel, embarrass, queue, Pharaoh, receipt.  I could go on for a long time!

 

Please go and cast your intellectual superiority elsewhere. We'll stick with falang thank you.

 

Off topic posts and replies trolling about "falangs" have been removed.