Thai women cautioned over marriage scams with Chinese nationals

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Police cautioned Thai women considering marriage to Chinese nationals against possible legal infringements in both Thailand and China.

 

According to a report on Monday, the alert followed revelations by the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) that a case involving a Thai woman from Udon Thani, subjected to marriage scams, and three years of abuse in China, did not constitute human trafficking.

 

Deputy commander of the ATPD, Police Colonel Surapong Chatsut, clarified that the 31 year old woman involved, identified as Nuch opted to sign a contract to marry a Chinese man and have a child, thereby ruling out a case of human trafficking. Previously, Nuch confessed that a matchmaker named Da duped her and three other women into marrying Chinese men. The conditions were a 100,000 baht (US$2,900) dowry and the requirement to conceive within six months.

 

Shockingly, the women ended up serving as housemaids or potentially even secondary wives to their fathers-in-law following childbirth. After being subjected to distressing treatment and family life in China, Nuch and the three other Thai women managed to return to Thailand last month with her mother’s intervention.

Nuch wedded a 32 year old Chinese national, Jin Wei Lian, within only three days of their initial matchmaking encounter. Despite voicing her inability to bear children prior to the marriage, the wedding proceeded. Consequently, Nuch faced the brunt of assault at the hands of her husband and mother-in-law due to her ongoing childlessness.

 

by Mitch Connor 

Photo courtesy of iStock

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/thai-women-cautioned-over-marriage-scams-with-chinese-nationals

 

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[flyingtlger]

5 minutes ago, webfact said:

Nuch wedded a 32 year old Chinese national, Jin Wei Lian, within only three days of their initial matchmaking encounter

Sounds like she was desperate....

[2baht]

Damn Chinese!

[NoDisplayName]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Nuch opted to sign a contract to marry a Chinese man and have a child,

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The conditions were a 100,000 baht (US$2,900) dowry and the requirement to conceive within six months.

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Despite voicing her inability to bear children prior to the marriage, the wedding proceeded.

Shirley!

[ChipButty]

they will do anything for money

[ezzra]

In a country of 70 plus million people, many of which are dirt poor and with dim future, anything that will them and their family a better life is a fair offer, those women knew very well what to expect as this was a forced/arrange marriage and there must be many more like them out there.

Edited July 16, 2023 by ezzra

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Previously, Nuch confessed that a matchmaker named Da duped her and three other women into marrying Chinese men. The conditions were a 100,000 baht (US$2,900) dowry and the requirement to conceive within six months

Breeding sows

[RichardColeman]

34 minutes ago, ezzra said:

In a country of 70 plus million people, many of which are dirt poor and with dim future, anything that will them and their family a better life is a fair offer

I would have thought there was far more choice out of a billion chinese.

[CanadaSam]

I'm not sure I understand.  She had to pay 100,000 baht to go to China and get abused?  Wow!