Police Raid Uncovers Child Prostitution Ring in Bangkok Karaoke Bar

[webfact]

 

Thai police conducted a raid on a karaoke bar in the Lat Pla Khao area, revealing a child prostitution ring exploiting minors to pay off exorbitant debts. The operation rescued teenage victims aged between 15 and 16 years old.

 

Special Operations from the Department of Provincial Administration carried out the raid yesterday to rescue the teenage victims of human trafficking within a karaoke establishment located in the Lat Pla Khao area of the Anusawari Subdistrict, Bang Khen District, Bangkok.

 

Authorities became aware that the establishment was using girls aged 15 to 16 for prostitution. The victims were coerced into this situation. One of the girls mentioned that her mother was ill, and she needed money for medical treatment. As a result, she agreed to take on debt, which subjected her to a 10% daily interest rate.

 

The raid led to the rescue of three initial victims. The police arrested the owner of the karaoke bar, charging them with several offences, including engaging in prostitution with individuals aged over 15 but under 18, human trafficking for the purpose of prostitution with individuals under 18, facilitating the sexual gratification of others with minors, persuading minors to engage in inappropriate behaviour, and employing minors under 18 in a service establishment.

 

The Department of Provincial Administration’s Special Operations team acted on verified information about the illegal activities at the karaoke bar.

 

The investigation revealed that the establishment exploited the financial desperation of these minors, who needed money for medical expenses for their sick relatives, by trapping them into a cycle of debt with high interest rates. This exploitation forced them into prostitution against their will.

 

The charges against the karaoke bar owner are serious. They include human trafficking, employing minors in a service establishment, and facilitating prostitution with minors. These charges are in line with Thai laws aimed at protecting minors and cracking down on human trafficking and child exploitation.

 

Picture courtesy: Khaosod

 

-- 2024-06-15

 

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[FritsSikkink]

Hope they jail all the customers too.

[hotchilli]

Thailand the beautiful Buddhist loving country.

[cncltd1973]

the traffickers should absolutely be jailed - but why aren't rapists also arrested? so many recent headlines of women and children raped and the cops can't be bothered into action, even when they know who it is and where he is at! must be a cultural thing? but it seems that at least some of these traffickers use girls that agree to it, whereas rape is entirely nonconsensual. traffickers and rapists need to all be jailed, I'm just wondering why the RTP are fixated on one but not the other. maybe it's for an international score on human trafficking, I don't know but it makes me extremely frustrated that women are beaten and raped and they can't find justice

Edited Saturday at 01:04 AM by cncltd1973

[Gottfrid]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Authorities became aware that the establishment was using girls aged 15 to 16 for prostitution. The victims were coerced into this situation. One of the girls mentioned that her mother was ill, and she needed money for medical treatment. As a result, she agreed to take on debt, which subjected her to a 10% daily interest rate.

How sad it might be, that is not being coerced into something.

[newbee2022]

You might call them children but for me they are young women knowing what they do and paid for.

However, if it's illegal.......🤔

[Henryford]

18 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

You might call them children but for me they are young women knowing what they do and paid for.

However, if it's illegal.......🤔

 

The key word is children, and they don't know what they are doing.

[Gottfrid]

17 minutes ago, Henryford said:

 

The key word is children, and they don't know what they are doing.

I 100% agree with you, that they are children and should not need to do such things. It´s all sad and horrible. However, if they know what they are doing or not, is very debatable. if you are not aware of what sex is and how to do when making children at the age of 15-18, then both the school, parents, yourself and the whole education system has failed. I am convinced that they know exactly what they are doing, but also convinced that they do not want or like it one bit.

They big problem here, is with family values, and what a good child must do and sacrifice for the family. This is also very one sided, as it in 99,9% target the girls in the family. Here they are brought up to know they are of smaller value then the protected golden sons. They are also instructed to be seen as a commodity worth a certain amount of money when getting married. All that and how important it is to see mum and dad as gods on a pillar, contribute to a less equal society where they are expected do do all they can to save the family.

Edited Saturday at 03:02 AM by Gottfrid

[newbee2022]

11 minutes ago, Henryford said:

 

The key word is children, and they don't know what they are doing.

Hmmh, a young woman with 16, having had her menstruation since 3 years and some boyfriends in that time, attending bar areas....does not know what she's doing??? You think, the bar manager came to her and offered her the Prostitution job? Oh dear....😳. 

[petermik]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Thailand the beautiful Buddhist loving country.

I,m shocked that they have found prostitutes here....well who`da believed it........

[milesinnz]

"subjected her to a 10% daily interest rate".   the people lending at this rate need to be condemned and punished in the same manner as the pimps, who pimped these underage girls.. they are knowingly creating misery feeding off the desperate... in others, the outcome could have been suicide - and that is then not such a big issue because suicide is not sexy....

[Bangkok Barry]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The operation rescued teenage victims aged between 15 and 16 years old

 

There. Fixed it. There is no age between 15 and 16.

[Maitdjai]

50 minutes ago, newbee2022 said:

Hmmh, a young woman with 16, having had her menstruation since 3 years and some boyfriends in that time, attending bar areas....does not know what she's doing??? You think, the bar manager came to her and offered her the Prostitution job? Oh dear....😳. 

Thank you, for the lecture about teenage menstruation, and the expertise about their sex-lives!

So, the usual culprits are not

-pimp parents

-pimp barmanagers

-pimp officials

-pimp the "average"

-and so on

No, the little, greedy, teenage sluts, by themselfes, right? Supported by their "pimp" boy/girl friends.

Wich venues you're visiting, to get the knowledge, to come to those profound

"expert-" analyses? 

🤣🤣🤣

 

 

 

 

[ChaiyaTH]

1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:

Hmmh, a young woman with 16, having had her menstruation since 3 years and some boyfriends in that time, attending bar areas....does not know what she's doing??? You think, the bar manager came to her and offered her the Prostitution job? Oh dear....😳. 

No the contact in the village did, and she didn't know a thing indeed, until the first day.

[newbee2022]

40 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

No the contact in the village did, and she didn't know a thing indeed, until the first day.

 

40 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

No the contact in the village did, and she didn't know a thing indeed, until the first day.

Oh yeah, and the Holy Ghost came then together with Santa and showed them the opportunities??? Silly.

The young ones did it because they liked the money. Nothing to do with any "village". Who is that actually?😳

 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, cncltd1973 said:

but why aren't rapists also arrested?

Probably because they weren't there and weren't caught in the act, that's why.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, newbee2022 said:

The young ones did it because they liked the money. Nothing to do with any "village". Who is that actually?

Everything to do with the villages...

 

"...the task force received information that the girls had been brought to the karaoke bar to provide sex services to customers. According to the investigation, the bar owner had procured the teens from different provinces several months ago, making them her debtors".

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 06:07 AM by Liverpool Lou

[Liverpool Lou]

3 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Hmmh, a young woman with 16, having had her menstruation since 3 years and some boyfriends in that time, attending bar areas....does not know what she's doing??? You think, the bar manager came to her and offered her the Prostitution job? Oh dear....

If you bothered to read anything other than this forum you'd see how far from reality your ridiculous fantasy about the girls actually is.

[BangkokReady]

14 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Thailand the beautiful Buddhist loving country.

 

"Thai people are just so kind and lovely.  Not like people back home."

[BangkokReady]

11 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

You might call them children but for me they are young women knowing what they do and paid for.

However, if it's illegal.......🤔

 

The point is that this is predators exploiting desperate young people who wanted to help their sick relatives.  They first get them to take out loans with insane daily interest, that they can likely never pay off (presumably they lied or misled them about this), then they say the only way out is to work off the debt as prostitutes.  It's essentially slavery.

 

They're basically vulnerable young people being exploited and forced into prostitution against their will.  This isn't some girl who could work in a factory or a 7-11 and get by, but chooses to work in Pattaya so she can party and buy nice things.

[jacob29]

12 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

However, if they know what they are doing or not, is very debatable.

 

Seems to miss the point. The girls likely do understand what they're doing, they're not old enough to consent to it though. The exact age settled on by law is a grey area, but I think you can agree a 10 year old cannot consent to this, even if they have been thoroughly educated on the work, and understand it. For the same reason they can't consent to working in a coal mine or other high risk job. The law being set to 18 seems reasonable.

 

12 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Hmmh, a young woman with 16, having had her menstruation since 3 years and some boyfriends in that time, attending bar areas....does not know what she's doing??? 

Girls can start menstruation before the age of ten, so not entirely clear the point you're making here. 

[Gottfrid]

49 minutes ago, jacob29 said:

 

Seems to miss the point. The girls likely do understand what they're doing, they're not old enough to consent to it though. The exact age settled on by law is a grey area, but I think you can agree a 10 year old cannot consent to this, even if they have been thoroughly educated on the work, and understand it. For the same reason they can't consent to working in a coal mine or other high risk job. The law being set to 18 seems reasonable.

 

Girls can start menstruation before the age of ten, so not entirely clear the point you're making here. 

What in the world has 10 year old girls to do with this? I don´t see the meaning with your reply, as I also started my post with the below. Did you just have a bad Saturday? Instead of replying to the whole post, you just took one single sentence out of context and made it what you wanted it to be. Seems like you did not only miss the point, but the whole meaning of my post.

 

13 hours ago, Gottfrid said:

I 100% agree with you, that they are children and should not need to do such things. It´s all sad and horrible.

 

Edited Saturday at 04:09 PM by Gottfrid

[jacob29]

12 minutes ago, Gottfrid said:

What in the world has 10 year old girls to do with this? I don´t see the meaning with your reply,

 

The original comment you appear to be saying is debatable, and correct me if I'm mistaken, was 'they don't know what they're doing'. Not knowing what they're doing means they didn't understand the gravity and consequences of what they were signing up to, not that they had no idea what sex is about or were tricked into it. Informed consent is inextricably linked to knowing what they're doing, they're not separable in any meaningful way.

 

If a child is working the cobalt mines of Congo, they also superficially know what they're doing. To suggest it's debatable that coercion or deception is involved (your first comment) is a bit on the nose.

[Gottfrid]

44 minutes ago, jacob29 said:

 

The original comment you appear to be saying is debatable, and correct me if I'm mistaken, was 'they don't know what they're doing'. Not knowing what they're doing means they didn't understand the gravity and consequences of what they were signing up to, not that they had no idea what sex is about or were tricked into it. Informed consent is inextricably linked to knowing what they're doing, they're not separable in any meaningful way.

 

If a child is working the cobalt mines of Congo, they also superficially know what they're doing. To suggest it's debatable that coercion or deception is involved (your first comment) is a bit on the nose.

Ok, but maybe you should have considered to quote my first comment instead of taking one sentence of the second. Do you think that makes more sense? As you couldn´t even understand that, I see your replies as utter garbage. Drunk in a bar perhaps? No one notice you, and you just have to play with the phone. 😂

Edited Saturday at 05:37 PM by Gottfrid

[jacob29]

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

Ok, but maybe you should have considered to quote my first comment instead of taking one sentence of the second. Do you think that makes more sense?

 

Your first comment was vague, it was only the second comment that provided clarification. Maybe you should remember what you posted recently?

 

1 hour ago, Gottfrid said:

As you couldn´t even understand that, I see your replies as utter garbage. 

This is rich coming from someone who believes it was worthwhile to muddy the waters, around whether an underage girl may have been coerced or misled into prostitution.

[balo]

Could have been worse,  13-14 year olds have been found in this business, happy to hear they are taking it seriously with underage bars. 
 

Edited Saturday at 09:41 PM by balo

[Gottfrid]

4 hours ago, jacob29 said:

 

Your first comment was vague, it was only the second comment that provided clarification. Maybe you should remember what you posted recently?

 

This is rich coming from someone who believes it was worthwhile to muddy the waters, around whether an underage girl may have been coerced or misled into prostitution.

Even if my first comment is vague, according to you, you can still not take info from the second one and later refer to the first. But, yet you did. Very stupid.

After the first comment I clearly explain in the second how it was not anybody who was misled, as it has it´s bottom in deeply rooted and unfair Thai traditions. So, you do not have to worry your pretty little head about that I do not remember what I post. The girls were aware of what they were getting into and the consequences of it at 15-16 years of age. They were doing this to save the family and help mum and dad to pay back loans they could not take care of.

The girls in question was not coerced into anything as that requires an act of violence or threats. In this case it was the parents that had those threats hanging over them, and they let the girls go ahead and in a dirty way save the family. Something that means exactly what I explained in my second post.

[fredwiggy]

20 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Hmmh, a young woman with 16, having had her menstruation since 3 years and some boyfriends in that time, attending bar areas....does not know what she's doing??? You think, the bar manager came to her and offered her the Prostitution job? Oh dear....😳. 

No, she doesn't know what she's doing, as her brain is nowhere near developed and with that comes irrational decisions, especially regarding letting someone into your body, and with that can come a pregnancy where a baby will usually be left without a father, and a mother who is involved in a business not to be proud of but despised. Much of the time that baby will be left with grandma, who is usually not in a position to raise a child, especially if she's illiterate, too old or too busy.

 

Many of these younger girls, and boys, are forced into this business being hooked on drugs by these scumbag traffickers. People who's only agenda is making money on others. Traffickers , convicted, should be given a life sentence, no parole, and the "men" who these girls are sold to, at least a 10 year sentence, also no parole. Only when punishment is severe will others think twice before using another person for monetary gain.

[novacova]

21 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

You might call them children but for me they are young women knowing what they do and paid for.

However, if it's illegal.......🤔

 

20 hours ago, newbee2022 said:

Hmmh, a young woman with 16, having had her menstruation since 3 years and some boyfriends in that time, attending bar areas....does not know what she's doing??? You think, the bar manager came to her and offered her the Prostitution job? Oh dear....😳. 

Good grief, delusional rationalism. It’s imperative that children focus on learning during the years of development without being distracted and corrupted by twisted creep perv adults. Why can’t folks such as yourself understand this? Is because that you’re part of the problem?

[FruitPudding]

On 6/15/2024 at 3:23 AM, webfact said:

The investigation revealed that the establishment exploited the financial desperation of these minors, who needed money for medical expenses for their sick relatives, by trapping them into a cycle of debt with high interest rates. This exploitation forced them into prostitution against their will

 

Such a lovely place.

 

Wonder if their relatives care?

 

Why didn't their relatives get free healthcare? From what I have seen,  it's good.