The First Person To Be Jailed In Australia For Child Trafficking.

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This was a news report filed on ninemsn yesterday afternoon in Australia, and quickly lost it's position due to the bombing in the U.S.A. I had to dig deep to find it again, but did. It is a timely reminder to us all, and for those of us that have grievences with the VISA process, and the hurdles and hoops that we have to jump through and over, to bring our loved ones from Thailand into our home countries. Sometimes we dont understand the "WHY" of a decision that goes against our applications for our partners, to enter our home soil. It is another case of one bad apple, spoils it for all of the good apples. Our wives, girlfriends, and partners are all good people, or we would not be with them. But look at what this Bad Apple has done in Australia. Is it any wonder that they make us work as hard as we have to in order to secure our partners futures in our home states. I suppose it should also be a warning to all of us fella's out there, that we need to be very prudent with the ones that we may think we may fall in love with after a weekin paradise, with beer goggles on, thinking we have just found our soulmate working on the other side of a bar. Get to know your partner and prospective wife or lover, and once you think you really know them, start getting to know them all over again until your sure......

"The first person to be jailed in Australia for Child Trafficking."

A Thai prostitute who sold her daughter for sex for seven years, from the age of nine, has become the first person in Australia to be jailed for child trafficking.

In sentencing the 41-year-old woman to nine years' jail, Brisbane Supreme Court Justice David Boddice slammed her behaviour as the "horrendous" exploitation of an innocent child who was simply trying to please her mother.

"This behaviour was particularly shocking, despicable and reprehensible as it was undertaken by a parent for financial profit ... with no regard for common decency," he said.

The court heard on Tuesday that the abuse started when the child visited her mother on a holiday to Australia from Thailand in 2004.

Prosecutor Todd Fuller SC said the woman brought the child permanently to Brisbane when she turned 11, making her a partner in the business.

Mr Fuller said the woman encouraged the child to perform a wide range of sexual services and threatened her with violence if she refused.

The woman told the daughter to exploit her clients - who paid her handsomely for services - for additional gifts and possible marriage.

"She regarded her daughter's virginity as a commodity that she could sell," Mr Fuller said.

The offending was discovered in 2011 when the girl complained to a family friend, who reported it to police.

The 41-year-old woman pleaded guilty to 20 charges, including child trafficking, procuring prostitution of a child, indecent treatment of a child and maintaining a sexual relationship with a child.

She will be eligible for parole after serving four years.

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