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Supreme Court Upholds Massage Parlor Prostitution Sentence


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Khmer Times / Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

The owner of a Tuol Kork massage parlor who was convicted of prostitution charges had her 15-year prison sentence upheld by the Supreme Court yesterday morning, according to presiding judge Khim Pon.

Judge Pon stated that Kong Lang, the owner of the Kong Lang Massage Shop in Phsar Deumkor commune, and two of her employees were taken into custody in 2009 during an Anti-Human Trafficking Police raid that also saw the arrests of five girls working as prostitutes under her watch, two of whom were under-age. Police also seized a number of both used an unused condoms during their search of the massage shop.

Ms. Lang was charged by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court in March 2010 for violations of three articles of the Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation and sentenced to 15 years in prison, while her two employees, 28-year-old Ath Yean and 30-year-old Thy Na, were each convicted of one violation during the trial and sentenced to seven years.

read more: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/22397/supreme-court-upholds-massage-parlor-prostitution-sentence/

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