Police have arrested a suspected human trafficker involved in bringing children from Cambodia to beg in Thailand.

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Prum Chenda, the deputy chief of the anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection unit of the Poipet military police, said Seng Savun, 25, was arrested on Monday.   Mr. Savun was charged with “unlawful removal of a minor” under the Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation. 
 

Mr. Chenda said military police investigators had found that Mr. Savun brought many poor children from Poipet to work as beggars in Thailand before his arrest. Police identified him after questioning victims who were caught by Thai immigration police and sent back to Cambodia via the Poipet International Checkpoint in Banteay Meanchey province.   
 

“He was arrested after he attempted to unlawfully remove a boy for begging in Thailand,” Mr. Chenda said. 

He added that after Mr. Savun’s arrest, police rescued a boy aged 11 from him. 

 

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[jerojero]

Utter scumbag! Preying on children. Bloody despicable!

[timendres]

Finally!

[khunPer]

Never buy flowers or other items from kids running around and selling it streets, markets and beaches, most of the kids are not from Thailand, and they should be home and go to school.

 

The difficulty is, that often the kids brings little money to a poor family at home, that may have hard time to find other ways of income; whilst the very bad thing is, that there are some "middlemen" (or women) that makes the big money on the flower-selling-kids...