Thai Sex Slaves in Australia

[SoiledCowboy]

It's the same the world over, unfortunately this time Australia is in the news - and many would be saying "I told you so".

 

Court told women kept as sex slaves

By Chloe Adams

June 5, 2004

 

FIVE alleged sex slaves are living in fear of retribution from a crime syndicate after reporting their captors to police, a court has heard.

 

The Thai women were allegedly lured to Australia and forced to work as prostitutes to pay off $45,000 debts they supposedly owed.

 

The Melbourne Magistrates' Court heard the women feared for their lives after receiving threats from Thai national Donporn Srimonthon, 37.

 

The court heard some of the women were also told their families in Thailand would be harmed by members of the alleged slavery syndicate if they spoke to Australian police.

 

Three alleged members of the syndicate appeared in court this week for a preliminary hearing.

 

Ms Srimonthon, an illegal immigrant, Paul Pick, 45, of North Balwyn, and Wei Tang, 41, of North Fitzroy, are each charged with five counts of possessing a slave.

 

Charges against Ms Tang's husband, John Davies, 50, were withdrawn, but the couple still face another charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice.

 

The charges are the first of their kind in Australia, laid under the 1995 Sexual Servitude Act.

 

The court was told the syndicate was uncovered in May last year when the Immigration Department and the federal police raided a Fitzroy brothel.

 

The women - who entered the country legally - were allegedly locked in apartments and forced to work in the brothel six days a week to pay off $45,000 debts they accrued by coming to Australia.

 

One victim was told the debt covered the cost of the visa she needed to work as a prostitute in Australia, while another woman was invited by a Thai man to accompany him on a month-long tour of Australia, she was later ordered to repay.

 

The women worked off the debt over several months by servicing 600 men at Ms Tang's legal brothel, Club 417, and received personal money only if they worked seven days a week.

 

The women told the court they did not go to police because they had no money or passport to get home, and they were concerned for their families in Thailand.

 

Ms Srimonthon allegedly told one woman police would arrest her if they found out about the debt-repayment "contract".

 

Ms Tang's lawyer, Phillip Priest, told the court one victim's evidence this week suggested she was never a slave and was free to come and go from the apartment as she pleased.

 

The court saw a video of the women laughing and chatting with the brothel's receptionist, Mummy, as they prepared dinner at Mummy's house.

 

Magistrate Angela Bolger granted a suppression order on the names of the five women. The hearing was to continue next week.

 

Herald Sun

[Guest]

3 years ago in Japan, it was US$30,000.00

 

I guess inflation is rearing it's head in Australia, these days.

 

::

 

HT

[Torneyboy]

Hi

 

Some months age something like this was reported in Sydney papers .

 

One girl taken by immigration ..died in custody.(drugs)

 

All very sad.

[MooNoi]

And this is precisely why I only engage in P4P in the bar scene in LOS. You never know who's pockets you're lining when paying for it at home outside the gogo/bar beer scene.

Very sad that people can treat other people like this.

Fly P.

[BelgianBoy]

HIGH THAIED said:

3 years ago in Japan, it was US$30,000.00

I guess inflation is rearing it's head in Australia, these days.

::

HT

 

HT,

 

Australian news = Australian $$$$, so its same same.

 

BB

converting

[Guest]

Not to trivialize legitimate cases, but often these girls are not slaves and knew exactly what they were doing when they signed on. When something does not go their way, then Presto! Suddenly they are sex slaves, lured into prostitution after being promised jobs as cooks or something. They know that that will play well with the cops and in the press.

[Fatbastard]

Thats probably in most cases true but I know of two that were lured into Australia with the promises of waitressing jobs, both girls were Graduates and certainly had no idea what their ultimate employment was going to be. Luckily one had a a family friend in OZ who negotiated a one off payment to release her from the Low life Cunts who got her in.

[Coss]

I agree, most will know full well what the job is going to be, but like you I know of one who wasn't.

 

Passport was held and I was instrumental in a sting that got the swine arrested at the point of trying to sell her to an undercover bobbie. 1st and only prosecuted case of slavery, here in middle earth.

 

The swine was a Thai national, here on supposedly legitimate business.

 

Cheers

 

Coss

[Encore]

Good on you, mate!

[arkutha]

I suppose that most of them go into this blind????

 

Bet they are promised the world and after they arrive in OZ are screwed financially & physically.

 

Met a lady in a supermarket in BKK who said she only recently returned from abroad after 18 months & paying off 1 million baht debt.

 

She said she was doing stints in many countries at the enforcement of here captures, 1 month here, 1 month there etc etc.

 

However she said it taught here a lesson, trust no one, Farang Man , Thai Man no one.

 

This type of set up happens everywhere in the world, only lining the pockets of the low life bastards who prey on these ladies.

 

With a number of convictions over the last 12 months, it comes as no surprise to see the embassies enforcing stricter visa conditions for genuine men trying to take their loved ones abroad.

 

Cheers

 

 

Arkutha

 

:)