• 
• 
• 

The Ratchadapisek Criminal Court Tuesday sentenced three Thai women - each guilty of procuring two Thai women for prostitution in South Africa - to a seven-and-a-half-year jail term and ordered them to pay Bt300,000 in compensation to the victims.

The lawsuit said the defendants, Jiraporn Butanai, 32, Bangon Sibbold, 35, and Wanpen Phromthat, 32, convinced Ying and Noi (not their real names) that working in a beer bar in South Africa would yield lucrative incomes and asked the pair to pay them Bt30,000 for expenses to arrange a trip to South Africa.

On arrival in the African country, the three women detained Ying and Noi and forced them to provide sexual services on an average of four customers per day. The two women eventually escaped and went for help at the Thai Embassy. This led to the arrest of Jiraporn in Chon Buri and the arrest of the other two defendants in Rayong, the lawsuit stated.

The Nation