Thread: 17 Children Rescued from Human Traffickers in Phuket

17 children believed to be Cambodian and Vietnamese were rescued in anti-human trafficking raids in Patong, Phuket. A Thai woman and Cambodian man, Ngo Sun and Suphattra Charoensuk were charged with human trafficking and forced labour.


The minors were brought into the custody of Phuket’s shelter for children. Furthermore authorities will screen them to determine how they were trafficked into the country.


The raids came after a victim of a human trafficking gang who managed to escape to Bangkok several months ago. The victim sought the help of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division, said Pol Lt Gen Jaruwat Waisaya.

“Using the information acquired from the escaped victim, authorities began tracking the gang members’ movements,” he said.


According to Pol Lt Gen Jaruwat, some victims were lured into forced labour in Phuket. While several had “voluntarily worked” with at least four human trafficking gangs. The gangs forced them to beg for money from tourists, selling sunglasses or garlands on the street of Phuket.


“These children, some of who were less than 15 years old. They were forced to work from midday until midnight every day without a day off,” he said.


“Some of them didn’t get paid at all and all they were given were meals and also a place to sleep in rented houses.


“Those who failed to bring back 3,000 baht a day were regularly whipped with a clothes hanger or beaten,” he said.


According to investigators, the children’s parents were actually paid by traffickers who essentially “bought” the right to employ them as hawkers in Phuket. Many were even told that their children would have an easy job in Thailand which pays about 5,000 baht a month.


These traffickers would also take the the children into Phuket Thailand via unmarked border crossings, police said.

https://www.chiangraitimes.com/thail...ers-in-phuket/

I just hope they get a decent prison sentence and their fellow inmates beat the living fucking shit out of them regularly.

Can't criticise the effort, but various forms of exploitation are so lucrative that no more than the tip of this giant berg could ever be effectively addressed. That said, a sturdy and regular whipping might deter some others.

^Would be nice, but you just know that someone higher up (likely wearing Govt uniform) has divvied up a couple of patsies, or dobbed in the competition.

That's part of what makes it lucrative, and works esp well when investigators are outranked by those they are deployed to target.