Thai accused of forced prostitution in Japan

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Thai accused of forced prostitution in Japan

Published: 7 Oct 2012 at 00.00
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A Thai woman formerly living in Japan has been extradited and charged with human trafficking following the dramatic escape of a woman who claims she was duped and forced to work in a brothel.

EXTRADITED: Malee Laoyang, who is facing human trafficking charges in connection with a forced prostitution case in Japan, was brought in front of the press by anti-trafficking police yesterday.

The Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTD) arrested Malee Laoyang, 31, following a complaint by a Thai woman who claimed that Ms Malee lured her to Japan and forced her to work in a brothel in Tochigi prefecture on Honshu island.

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falangsur
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Discussion 5 : 08 Oct 2012 at 09.415
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@ pointofview - look at the photos of Japan after their tsunami - read the stories of self-governance when certain villages were cut off. Compare this to the crimes committed in Thaialnd of property theft. As for human trafficing - many of the girls in Patpong, Pattaya, Soi Cowboy are introduced to these places by family members. So it is hardly a surprise that some would run a business out of it with fellow countrymen. Thai's shield their eyes from most stories like this so they can avoid really having to understand and know how their country and nation truly exists....
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Discussion 4 : 07 Oct 2012 at 12.504
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drsmith, discussion 3, "Thai's praying on each other for money" (you mean preying, I assume) and "evident of Thailand slipping further into the third world", do you really believe that in so-called first world countries people do not prey on each other?
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Discussion 3 : 07 Oct 2012 at 11.093
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Thai's praying on each other for money. What a sick, sick, sick thing to do. For all of the Thai's that really think they are better than everyone else in the world, all one has to do is read the news each day and see how Thai's have turned on their own people for money. Society can go no lower and evident of Thailand slipping further into the third world.
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Discussion 2 : 07 Oct 2012 at 09.142
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I 200% agree with soltair, discussion 1. To start a change, let's parade those PROVEN responsible for parading this suspect.
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Discussion 1 : 07 Oct 2012 at 04.501
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Parading a suspect is against the law to start with, however, why is our law breaking police-force parading suspects of crimes selectively? I would like to see "politicians" and other phu yai level people who are suspected of crimes to be paraded as well.
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