February 13, 2010
VietnamNet Bridge, 11 February 2010
Police of the southern province of Tay Ninh and guards at HCM
City’s Tan Son Nhat airport on February 9 rescued nine girls who
were about to sold to brothels in Singapore.
Police arrested three people, Tran Thi Kim Ngan, 19 from Tay
Ninh, Ly Thanh Mong, 25 from Vinh Long province and Do Van Thanh
Nhut, 21 from HCM City when they were carrying out formalities for
nine girls to leave Vietnam to Singapore at the Tan Son Nhat
airport.
Two others were arrested after that, Vo Thi Hiep, 46 from An
Giang province and Tran Thi Kim Ngoc, 19 from Tay Ninh
province.
According to investigators, these people went to provinces in
the Mekong River Delta to choose pretty rural girls at the age of
20-30 to sell to brothels in Singapore.
Ngan and Nhut directly met girls to persuade them to go to
Singapore to work for an “extremely high salary”. However, they
were sold to brothels.
Police are expanding investigations and cooperating with
Singaporean agencies to detect and rescue other Vietnamese girls
sold to Singapore by this ring.
http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/02/13/nine-girls-rescued-from-being-sold-to-singaporean-brothels/