Prachin Buri bar owner faces trafficking charge

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Prachin Buri bar owner faces trafficking charge
By Supachai Phetchthewee
The Nation

 

PRACHIN BURI: -- The owner and cashier of a Prachin Buri karaoke bar have been charged with human trafficking after allegedly supplying girls under 18 for prostitution.

 

Officers of the Anti-Human Trafficking Division made the arrests on Monday night at the Thanapat karaoke bar in Kabin Buri district’s Tambon Nong Kee, the division’s chief, Pol Maj-General Kornchai Klayklueng, announced on Tuesday.

 

Thitirat Lin, 36, and Suthat Chaisamrit, 29, were apprehended in a sting operation. 

 

Undercover police allegedly arranged with the bar staff to pay the girls Bt2,000 each for sex at a hotel. Police then retrieved the girls from the hotel room and turned them over to a home caring for children and families. 

 

Kornchai said another team then went to the bar to trace the banknotes used to pay the girls and arrested Thitirat, the bar owner, and Suthat, the cashier.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30319236

 

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[williamgeorgeallen]

what does underage girls working as hookers have to do with people trafficking?

[ratcatcher]

14 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

what does underage girls working as hookers have to do with people trafficking?

Maybe this?

"(a) [...] the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal, manipulation or implantation of organs;" Wiki.

 

[Get Real]

24 minutes ago, williamgeorgeallen said:

what does underage girls working as hookers have to do with people trafficking?

I guess you got your answer above! Great job, Ratcatcher! That one just must sink in! 

[Cadbury]

On this occasion the police used other police to set up the sting which in other countries is called entrapment. Fair enough I suppose if it keeps underage girls out of the prostitution scene.

Can't hep but wonder on a normal working day who the customers might be. Surely not military officers or off-duty RTPs.