A woman was sentenced to 18 years in jail Friday for trafficking women from her hometown to Italy, where they were forced to work in prostitution, court officials said.

The Criminal Court found Kularb Thongmisri, 42, guilty of procuring three woman from an impoverished part of Si Sa Ket province in northeast Thailand to work in the Italian sex industry three years ago.

The victims, aged 42, 40 and 31, were lured to Europe by Kularb with the promise of well-paid jobs as house maids. But she made them pay an advance sum of 500,000 baht (14,500 dollars) each for travel costs.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/14...man-trafficking

-- Bangkok Post 29/05/09

Great. Would like to see more traffickers get thrown in jail.

Bet she will do some hard time in Jail, if luck not 18 years but jail time never the less.

It's amazing anyone would cough up that kind of dough for a mysterious well paying job in a country they are completely unfamiliar with.

Desperation from those well past their prime in the local market I suspect.

Add the load of familial responsibility, illnesses and maybe local loansharks etc.

Edited May 30, 200917 yr by animatic

And they were not exactly young impressionable girls either?

I'm always surprised why these traffickers need to lure people. Plenty of girls available in Pattaya, Nana etc who would go voluntarily with full knowledge of what work they gonna do.

I'm always surprised why these traffickers need to lure people. Plenty of girls available in Pattaya, Nana etc who would go voluntarily with full knowledge of what work they gonna do.

That's why most of these stories are bull. There is a huge supply willing to go, but you need to say something once you're arrested.

I'm always surprised why these traffickers need to lure people. Plenty of girls available in Pattaya, Nana etc who would go voluntarily with full knowledge of what work they gonna do.

That's why most of these stories are bull. There is a huge supply willing to go, but you need to say something once you're arrested.

I agree. There's not much coercion going on especially where it's involving women over 30. Be it a brothel or a "live in" semi-permanent "maid" position there does seem to be plenty of takers for the positions. Probably only come to the attention of authorities because they don't have the necessary immigration or working documents.

Apart from the underage who are sold into servitude involuntarily the people trafficking issue involving older women appears to be a media beat up.

Edited May 30, 200917 yr by sibeymai

Thailand have to be seen to be doing something about what is simply viewed here as a good money-making opportunity for all involved. So occasionally a headline-grabbing case like this will appear in the papers. Big money is going to senior police officers and politicians for this business so don't expect it to stop any time soon.

Where the real trafficking occurs in significant numbers is in the sex trade to Japan where teenage south-east Asians are kept incarcerated in brothels as they "work off" massive "incurred debts".

Forget any campaign as implied by the story as a smokescreen.

A woman was sentenced to 18 years in jail Friday for trafficking women from her hometown to Italy, where they were forced to work in prostitution, court officials said.

The Criminal Court found Kularb Thongmisri, 42, guilty of procuring three woman from an impoverished part of Si Sa Ket province in northeast Thailand to work in the Italian sex industry three years ago.

The victims, aged 42, 40 and 31, were lured to Europe by Kularb with the promise of well-paid jobs as house maids. But she made them pay an advance sum of 500,000 baht (14,500 dollars) each for travel costs.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/14...man-trafficking

-- Bangkok Post 29/05/09

500,000 baht. Impoverished...............really!!!!

And they were not exactly young impressionable girls either?

An excellent sell, or maybe all have something in common?

I like your comment too, Wasabi, though maybe this comment above says they were not unfamiliar with Italy as well......

Thailand have to be seen to be doing something about what is simply viewed here as a good money-making opportunity for all involved. So occasionally a headline-grabbing case like this will appear in the papers. Big money is going to senior police officers and politicians for this business so don't expect it to stop any time soon.

Where the real trafficking occurs in significant numbers is in the sex trade to Japan where teenage south-east Asians are kept incarcerated in brothels as they "work off" massive "incurred debts".

Forget any campaign as implied by the story as a smokescreen.

Agree without a doubt.

How would an uprising against police go here, if it were well played by very peaceful, large crowds?

Maybe someone would start violence, but maybe not by the color of his shirt!

here's a tip, don't believe everything you read...or are told...especially by the authorities