U.S. hoping to find more suspects in Thailand in sex trafficking ring case

By Coconuts Bangkok 

 

Photo: Lei Han/Flickr

 

BANGKOK: -- American law officials are hoping to work more closely with Thai police to find some of the suspects in Thailand that convinced hundreds of Thai women to travel to the States where they were forced into debt bondage sex slavery.

 

Twelve suspects were arrested in the U.S. in the trafficking case last Tuesday and a total of 17 have been indicted. Among the named suspects are 12 Thais and five U.S. citizens. They are charged with sex trafficking, forced labor, money laundering and visa fraud.

 

The case first received publicity last week and the case broke in Minnesota. American law officials noticed that many Thai women, code named as "flowers," were being moved through the airport in Minneapolis. They were brought to the suburbs to buy condoms and sex work supplies before being taken to hotel rooms or apartments and forced to perform sex acts with several men every day.

 

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/10/10/us-hoping-find-more-suspects-thailand-sex-trafficking-ring-case

 

-- © Copyright Coconuts Bangkok 2016-10-11

Or were they experienced sex workers who were earning a greater income and sending money home?

I would imagine that the US have some of the wanted people in Thailand.....hopefully now, it's just a matter of the RTP actually assisting!

17 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

I would imagine that the US have some of the wanted people in Thailand.....hopefully now, it's just a matter of the RTP actually assisting!

it might depend on who they are, I am sure the victims have pointed out the people involved in Thailand to US officials

Yes the US can hope all they want but the BIB will carefully consider who they are dealing with before deciding to co-operate.

I'm sure they have suspects whether the Thai Governement wants to let them be extradited is another matter. My local county has had  extradition requests on a number of Thai nationals going back 10 years or more now, which never seem to go through.  Not that we really have a extradition treaty .... we have a piece of paper and its more like a wish list according to our DA ........ 

no, no more human traffickers in thailand. thai people good people but when they live overseas they can become bad people. please dont put us back on the watch list.

Sometimes countries do not want to assist (they say the are assisting but it's all lip service)  simply due to the high likelihood of arrest "which would result in bad press for the country, prominent people, and/or key industries."  

What I would like to know is how are they getting a visa to the USA for these girls when a person married to a Thai cannot get one????? 

With crime rates falling at home, the Americans have begun looking abroad for ways to keep their for-profit prisons at full occupancy

" They were brought to America under the promise that their travel debt would be paid off in a few years."

 

Years to pay off a travel debt?  Were the women that dumb or that desperate?

 

I'm sure no Bangkok or Pattaya hooker would be that dumb.  They must have recruited very poor, uneducated young women who knew nothing of the world outside their villages.