AN AUSTRALIAN court on Wednesday convicted a 45-year-old woman of keeping a Thai cosmetic saleswoman as a sex slave and forcing her to service more than 720 clients to pay off a debt.
Watcharaporn Nantahkhum, 45, was found guilty in Canberra's Supreme Court of six sex slavery-related charges relating to the woman she recruited to come to Australia as a sex worker in 2007.
The victim, whose identity was withheld, told the court her passport was taken once she arrived and she was forced to see more than 720 clients over three and a half months to pay off an A$43,000 (RM137,000) debt Nantahkhum said she owed.
She said she had decided to work as a prostitute to help pay the mortgage on her rice field and put her son through school. (Agencies)
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