Pattaya Tourist Police shut-down underage prostitution service

May 24, 2011

Tourist Police have arrested two people in connection with an underage prostitution service, operating in Pattaya. One of those arrested was the mother of a 14 year old who was being sold to foreign customers for sex, in exchange for cash. Officers from the Tourist Police Undercover Unit, based in North Pattaya were made aware of a woman who was attempting to sell sexual services to foreigners and claimed to be in a position where she could offer a 14 year old girl to them in exchange for 1,500 Baht. An undercover operation was set up using marked bank notes. The 14 year old girl was detained for her own safety and initially a 26 year old woman, Khun Pantipar, was arrested and claimed she was told by the child’s mother, Khun Giraporn aged 28, to send her to a customer, who was in fact working with the Tourist Police. Khun Giraporn, who lives in Rayong Province, was asked to attend and initially denied she had sent her daughter to foreigners for the purposes of sex. She later confessed and claimed she needed money to pay for bail relating to a case of suspected theft of watches from a shop where she used to work at the Royal Garden Plaza in South Pattaya. At this point she decided to use her daughter to obtain money and this was the second occasion when the girl had sex with someone in exchange for cash, although she had been reportedly raped when she was 9 years old by a cousin and then dropped out of school as a result. Police have arrested Khun Pantipar and will build a case against the girls mother in due course. The girl has been taken into care.

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