A Thai teen who claims she was tricked into the Korean sex trade was rescued just three days after posting details of her plight.
When Pol Lt Col Thanin Chindamaee received a Facebook message from a year-old girl asking for his help to escape from a brothel in South Korea, at first he didn't believe it was serious. Phiangjai Kim is taken into police custody last Thursday for questioning over claims she procured her year-old niece for prostitution. But Pol Lt Col Thanin, the deputy chief of Khok Si Suphan police station in Sakon Nakhon, gave it some thought and decided it would do no harm to find out if the plea was true.
He showed the message to a woman friend and together they started to find out more about the girl. One part of her message read: "Please help me.
I was lured into being a prostitute at a shop called Ayutthaya in Seoul, South Korea. I am being forced to take customers 20 hours a day. Pol Lt Col Thanin and his friend talked with the girl via Facebook's chat service and became convinced that she really was in trouble and needed help.
The girl proved her location by pressing the "check-in" button on Facebook, which reveals the user's whereabouts to other members. She also showed them photographs of male customers visiting the parlour where she said she was being forced to sleep with them for money.
