Prajuab karaoke raided - 16 year old sex worker found

[rooster59]

Prajuab karaoke raided - 16 year old sex worker found

Image: Thairath

PRAJUAB: Police in Prajuab have arrested a karaoke bar owner and three others after finding evidence of human trafficking involving an underage girl.

The downtown Blue Star karaoke lounge in Prajuab Khirikhan province was raided after a sting operation in which a hilltribe girl was taken to a hotel by officers posing as customers.

The "Tai Yai" girl admitted that she was aged between 16 and 17. Eight other hilltribe sex workers were found to be working at the establishment but they were over 18. Further charges will be laid if it can be shown they were lured into the sex trade or were there against their will.

Charges of human trafficking in underage girls were laid against the owner and three people looking after the Blue Star. Two men and two women - all Tai Yai people - were detained.

The raid was carried out under the direction of the Interior Ministry and provincial governor Thawee Naritsirikun was part of the team of soldiers and police that carried it out.

Source: Thairath

-- 2016-07-30

[LazySlipper]

HMMM... I wonder... has the minister of tourism been informed yet? Prolly the girl catering to farang sex tourists... Certainly not Thais... !!!...

[pmarlin]

They need to track down all of her customers and charged them with rape.

[WhizBang]

They need to track down all of her customers and charged them with rape.

Yeah, like ANYBODY keeps such records.

[WhizBang]

Is it just me, or is the term 'human trafficing' being overused?

[hansnl]

On 7/30/2016 at 1:10 PM, WhizBang said:

Is it just me, or is the term 'human trafficing' being overused?

Yes, it is.

 

[bangon04]

45 minutes ago, hansnl said:

Yes, it is.

 

You have to see this in context. Thailand has recently been criticised by the international community for not doing enough about human trafficking. So naturally they are making sure that the phrase appears as often as possible in the press and elsewhere.

[tuanku]

Several girls over the age of 18 had been working at the Karaoke/brothel for 3 to 5 years already?

They may be over 18 now but how old were they when first trafficked? 

[brucec64]

1 hour ago, tuanku said:

Several girls over the age of 18 had been working at the Karaoke/brothel for 3 to 5 years already?

They may be over 18 now but how old were they when first trafficked? 

If a karaoke owner knowingly lets an underage girl work as a sex worker in the bar, it is a criminal act, but not necessarily trafficking. According to the UN, (https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html),  the following defines human trafficking. So, unless the girls were abducted, or tricked into working, or sold by their parents, it is not human trafficking.

Elements of human trafficking

On the basis of the definition given in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol, it is evident that trafficking in persons has three constituent elements;

The Act (What is done)

Recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons

The Means (How it is done)

Threat or use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power or vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim

The Purpose (Why it is done)

For the purpose of exploitation, which includes exploiting the prostitution of others, sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery or similar practices and the removal of organs.

To ascertain whether a particular circumstance constitutes trafficking in persons, consider the definition of trafficking in the Trafficking in Persons Protocol and the constituent elements of the offense, as defined by relevant domestic legislation.

 

[SOTIRIOS]

....only one girl in all of Thailand....do you think....???