Monday, January 20, Columns Photogenic. Econ Biz insights Corporate. Thailand World. Police yesterday announced the arrest of a Thai woman suspected of human trafficking and the rescue of 13 Myanmar women β including a year-old and three girls under 18 β allegedly lured into sex work at a Ranong guesthouse.
She denied the charges. After a tip-off from the Freeland Foundation that some Myanmar women under 18 were doing sex work in Ranong, an investigation by Anti-Human Trafficking Division AHTD police found this was taking place in the guesthouse. Upon payment, police presented themselves to arrest the suspect and rescued 13 Myanmar women and girls at the premises. Victim screening found that besides the year-old, three other girls under 18 were reportedly assaulted and forced into prostitution, while nine other Myanmar women had illegally entered the Kingdom.
Ranong Governor Cherdsak Jampates said that police would try to catch others involved in these crimes. He noted that state officials were not involved in human trafficking β but if they were, they would be severely punished. Last Wednesday, police arrested three Myanmar human-trafficking suspects who lured Myanmar girls into prostitution in Mae Sot in Tak province and rescued three girls under 18, following a tip that a gang lured girls aged for sex work in the area. This case caused national police chief Adul Saengsingkaew to order the transfer of Muang Nakhon Sawan superintendent Pol Colonel Khanakorn Rungkhajornklin to an inactive post, and to transfer several other police to work in Provincial Police Region 6.
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