Thai women trafficked into Indian brothel seek legal action

[snoop1130]

 

Two Thai women were escorted to a police station after being deceived by a fellow Thai into working in India where they were trafficked to a brothel. The victims are seeking assistance from the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Surachate “Big Joke” Hakparn, to pursue legal action against the exploiter.

 

Kan Jompalang brought the two Thai women to complain about being tricked into sexual trade in India. He said they were interested in working at a Thai massage parlour abroad but, after arriving, they found themselves in an unexpected situation where their Thai caretakers seized their passports.

 

These people acted as mafia, trafficking and forcing the Thai women into prostitution in an Indian brothel. If they wanted to return to Thailand, they had to pay 75,000 baht for their passports.

 

Thirty-year-old Anne explained that on August 18, a friend invited her to work as a masseuse in India, claiming that she could stay for about a year on a visa and earn approximately 100,000 baht per month. If she stayed for a year, she could earn over 1 million baht.

 

The friend then gave her the phone number of a job broker named Kung. Anne contacted her via WhatsApp and sent her personal information.

 

On August 21, after meeting Kung at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Anne flew to India with two older friends who had introduced her to the opportunity. Upon landing at Mumbai Airport, Kung’s team was not there to pick them up. They took a six-hour car journey to Surat, where they found a rental apartment managed by a Thai woman named Yok.

 

The victims were taken to a massage parlour for what they thought was a tour and a job to work as a masseuse. However, they found themselves serving customers in ways they did not expect as the parlour was an Indian brothel.

 

By Neill Fronde

Caption: Picture courtesy of Dailynews

 

Full Story: https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/thai-women-tricked-into-indian-brothel-seek-legal-action-against-exploiter

 

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[Dmaxdan]

5 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

 

Thirty-year-old Anne explained that on August 18, a friend invited her to work as a masseuse in India, claiming that she could stay for about a year on a visa and earn approximately 100,000 baht per month. If she stayed for a year, she could earn over 1 million baht.

Naivety appears to be the problem here.

If something sounds to good to be true....then it probably is.

[Deserted]

Why did they think they would get 100k a month?

[freedomnow]

50 minutes ago, Deserted said:

Why did they think they would get 100k a month?

Strong hands ?

[Deserted]

Well it's their mistake, as if they could earn that much. Silly to fall for a stupid deception.

[d4dang]

welcome to India

[charmonman]

41 minutes ago, Deserted said:

Well it's their mistake, as if they could earn that much. Silly to fall for a stupid deception.

People fall for all kinds of stupid deceptions. They are still victims of a horrible crime. That’s what’s relevant here.

[Deserted]

They are victims yes but they are also to blame for falling for a cheap sell. 

[hotchilli]

Victims of a deception, however when going to work abroad it is worth investing some time in doing homework to check everything is straight before boarding the aircraft and leaving.

The internet is a useful tool in checking things out, just as a start.

 

[SiSePuede419]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

100,000 baht per month

Have these women ever seen pictures of how dirty and nasty India is?

 

Do they realize a billion people there <deleted> in open fields?  If you're <deleted>ting in an open field you're not washing your hands with soap afterwards.

 

 

[Kerryd]

Wow - it's like you all think that poor girls with Grade 8 educations from poor villages should automatically know all the cons of the world and be able to do detailed internet searches to detect possible scams.

And think they should be automatically suspicious if a "friend" tells them of an opportunity where they could make huge money and they meet another Thai who no doubt spins them a tale as well and fills their heads with dreams of easy money.

Decades ago, Nepal stopped allowing their women to leave the country to go work elsewhere. 
I wondered why (in Afghanistan) we could hire Nepalese men but not women. Turns out that Nepal had a problem with INDIAN men promising Nepalese women big money for working menial jobs like maids and waitresses.

But of course, once they entered India their passports would be stolen by their employeers and they'd be thrown into a brothel. If they were lucky, they might be able to escape after a couple years.

It was happening so often because most Nepalese women have little or no education and even less experience dealing with foreigners. The lure of making 3-5 (or more) times the money for doing the same job is pretty strong when you are living below the poverty line.

The "brothel" scam has also been going on for decades here as well. A friend of mine told me she'd been offered a "modeling" job in Indonesia (back around 2008) and it supposedly paid huge money compared to what she was making. I cautioned her and showed her some recent news stories about Thai women rescued from brothels in South Korea and other places that had also been offered "modelling" jobs.

Same deal - it was a "friend" who told her about the deal. Some pimp pays a Thai woman to scout out possible victims and probably pays her a fee for each one she convinces to take the job. The girls think the woman is just being nice and trying to help them out like an older sister or aunt.

Even in Canada. I knew a girl (early 20s), not overly attractive. She was telling me her sister had been offered a job teaching in Japan. As soon as I saw the sister's photo I knew it was a scam. She was HOT.
She may have been magazine material even (good mags, not the cheap sleazy kind). If there had been OnlyFans back then, she'd have been a star.

There was no way she was being recruited to teach English in Japan. Especially not for the crazy amount of money she was apparently being offered.

But it seems the idea of not even having to be a qualified teacher in order to get a very high paying job in a school in a foreign country was too good to be true.
(I never did hear if she took the job.)

So it's not just dumb farm girls that get lured into scams like this.



 

[RichardColeman]

Probably going to be very hard finding a decent husband after being rogered by a 1000 indians

[stevecarteraus]

Sad to see victim blaming here. Each of us has fallen for a deception at some time but maybe not as bad as this. Human trafficking has millions of victims every year, sometimes fatal consequences, there is no excuse for the perpetrators and to blame victims is pure arrogance and bastardry.

[nobodysfriend]

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

He said they were interested in working at a Thai massage parlour abroad but, after arriving, they found themselves in an unexpected situation where their Thai caretakers seized their passports.

Classic . If they would have done a little background research , they would have found some examples other thai women fell victim to ( Dubai ) .

But greed was the main factor for them traveling to India .

Stupid as can be ...

[Jealous Lazy Westerner]

1 hour ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Have these women ever seen pictures of how dirty and nasty India is?

 

Do they realize a billion people there <deleted> in open fields?  If you're <deleted>ting in an open field you're not washing your hands with soap afterwards.

 

 

Are you dumb , did you ever visit India . Did you watch people <deleted> on open field . Which country you from Mr . Old fart GrandDaughter slayer . Stop fake and jealous propaganda against India . Better take care your ( wives & gf)  grand daughters , and continue your disguising family line here in Thailand but without hate against a particular community .

[Jealous Lazy Westerner]

28 minutes ago, nobodysfriend said:

Classic . If they would have done a little background research , they would have found some examples other thai women fell victim to ( Dubai ) .

But greed was the main factor for them traveling to India .

Stupid as can be ...

Yes pls research for them next time ,, 

[cncltd1973]

I wonder what punishment she will be sentenced? that's at least 2 lives she's handed over to sex traders to be traumatized until they're worthless to the trade. didn't mentioned the ages of the women so we can only guess

Edited September 7, 2023 by cncltd1973

[thailand49]

I would be paying a little visit to the so call friend first!

[sqwakvfr]

100,000 Bath a month in India??? That should have raised some eyebrows. 

Edited September 7, 2023 by sqwakvfr

[stoner]

some thai rak thai going on here. 

[BritManToo]

16 minutes ago, cncltd1973 said:

I wonder what punishment she will be sentenced? that's at least 2 lives she's handed over to sex traders to be traumatized until they're worthless to the trade. didn't mentioned the ages of the women so we can only guess

Op said girl was 30 and travelled with 2 older Thai women.

[Don Chance]

1 hour ago, SiSePuede419 said:

Have these women ever seen pictures of how dirty and nasty India is?

 

Do they realize a billion people there <deleted> in open fields?  If you're <deleted>ting in an open field you're not washing your hands with soap afterwards.

 

 

It is not a billion.

 

The latest WHO-UNICEF data shows at least one-sixth of India’s rural population still defecate in the open and a quarter doesn’t have even basic sanitation access  

[jacko45k]

29 minutes ago, Jealous Lazy Westerner said:

Are you dumb , did you ever visit India . Did you watch people <deleted> on open field .

I did.......

[cncltd1973]

3 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

I did.......

perv...

[jacko45k]

1 minute ago, cncltd1973 said:

perv...

Not much on TV there, so sat on a balcony with a cup of tea......... or other beverage.

Edited September 7, 2023 by jacko45k

[SiSePuede419]

19 minutes ago, Don Chance said:

It is not a billion.

 

The latest WHO-UNICEF data shows at least one-sixth of India’s rural population still defecate in the open and a quarter doesn’t have even basic sanitation access  

569 million (2017) just 6 years ago.

1.354 billion population (2017)

That's 42% of the population, not "one sixth".

 

Math. ✅

 

"Vietnam, for example, has all but eliminated the practice over the past few decades."

 

Yes, I realize that India has some areas that are clean and modern.

 

Yet for a country that prides itself on how many CEOs it has in America, seems like a pretty dirty place.

 

Let's not even talk about the caste system (California just passed an anticaste discrimination law and you can guess how butthurt these people are by being fairly described as Hindu discrimination.) ????

Edited September 7, 2023 by SiSePuede419

[AustinRacing]

It is very well known among Thais that going overseas for massage employment means selling your body for sex. I don’t believe her story. To me it sounds like the deal gone sour and she wasn’t paid enough hence deciding to take revenge as Thai vindictive behavior is also well known. 
 

[AustinRacing]

Can you imagine the condition of a brothel and its clientele in some remote part of India. A place to send cyanide Am to serve her sentence

[EVENKEEL]

26 minutes ago, Don Chance said:

It is not a billion.

 

The latest WHO-UNICEF data shows at least one-sixth of India’s rural population still defecate in the open and a quarter doesn’t have even basic sanitation access  

I've been to Goa which has a high per capita earnings and it was nasty and dirty.

[ThaiFelix]

32 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

100,000 Bath a month in India??? That should have raised some eyebrows. 

No it does the opposite, the thought of big money blinds them.  My SIL and her friends are trying to get into the same thing right now but wont listen.  Been ripped off twice already trying to get to Sth Korea ILLEGALY even with all the news and crackdowns.  Now they are supposedly working while studying "traditional Thai massage" in Pattaya or Phuket but doing everything possible to hide their location on FB because everyone is trying to talk them out of working outside of Thailand.  One of their work mates took off two days ago for a massage joint in Dubai even though the SIL says their boss doesnt send girls overseas.....seems she forgot that.So they know what they are doing is very risky business.  And I know 3 of them well and none nor their families is in financial stress, one has a Brit boyfriend sending money every month!  

 

Yes some get duped but mostly they know its very risky business and its mostly their own countrymen that exploit them but their greed is too great.