Child prostitution in Thailand
The Thai media has paid quite a bit of attention to the various arrests that recently took place in connection with child prostitution in Thailand Thailand. This article deals with this highly sensitive issue and we look at some of the reasons and causes for the continued increase in child prostitution in this country.
First of all, it should be noted that in the eyes of many locals and expats, the extensive media attention paid to the case of Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev is good for making the issue clear to a wider audience. The problem of child prostitution is not new, because criminal offenses have been committed in this area for more than 30 years, not only in Thailand, but also in a number of neighboring countries.
Pedophiles
Why? At the risk of digging into a cesspool, one can say that a combination of political, legal, economic and social factors still make it possible for Thailand to be a breeding ground cq. "safe haven" is for pedophiles and immoral people who abuse young children.
In Thailand, child sex offenders receive relatively lenient sentences, 4-20 years in prison and/or a fine of 8.000-40.000 baht, apparently not enough to instill sufficient respect for the law. Couple this with the good opportunity to acquit yourself (read pay) and everyone can indulge their child prostitution tendencies for relatively little money.
Sex tourism
For many years Thailand has been unofficially awarded the title of 'Asia's Sex Tourism Capital' with Pattaya being the shining example, closely followed by the infamous red light districts of Bangkok and to a lesser extent the bars and clubs of Phuket. Despite all the nice words and smoke screens with which the Thai government advertises Thailand (think of the Amazing Thailand campaign), one simply has to conclude that almost half of tourism can be classified under the banner of “sex tourism”.
Recent initiatives and proactive measures taken by both the national and provincial governments have helped to shed some light on the blatant crimes, but this has led to a new phenomenon where offenders operate “underground”. On several occasions, the police have discovered an entire network of child prostitution with national and in some cases international contacts, operating from legitimate companies or through unsuspecting intermediaries.
Arrest
In Pattaya, local authorities recently launched a campaign targeting acts of child abuse, exploitation and prostitution and exposing the roots of suspected pedophile networks. The arrest of the internationally renowned Russian musician Mikhail Pletnev is a good example of this.
Unless Thailand takes measures, seriously and collectively supported and implemented at every level of government, to eradicate child prostitution, the situation will continue to deteriorate.
The enormous economic division of the Thai economy between the super-rich elite and the subordination of the rice farmers in the Isaan contributes strongly to the increase in child prostitution. The inequality of wealth and the inherent disadvantages it entails (poor health care, education and quality of life) means that many families, especially in the rural areas of the North and Northeast, are looking to provide a source of income for their children. It is not uncommon for children around 10 years old to be taken out of school to help in the family business.
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As a result of the aforementioned inequality, prostitution of both minors and adults has become a popular career choice for the more impoverished Thai people, which is simply more lucrative than working on a farm. Although prostitution is illegal in Thailand, it is widespread throughout the country. Bars, pubs and clubs in every major city serve both local and foreign customers. Since the days of the Vietnam War, the prostitution industry has grown enormously and is tolerated for the income it brings.
The social divide and notoriety of prostitution in Thailand has inherently driven the demand for more and younger “service providers”. It is not uncommon to hear of a child being rented or sold by the family for as little as 2.000 – 3.000 Baht. Some children from broken homes are forced to work in industry or are encouraged to do so by friends or relatives. Many children from the big cities end up in prostitution after trying to sell drugs, which is an extremely risky and severely punished crime.
underage
The young mind is easily influenced and that means that those young children, once introduced to prostitution, become “career prostitutes”. Afraid to inform their parents or the authorities about their situation, many children forced into prostitution accept their situation and continue to put themselves up for sale.
In Pattaya alone, about 2.000 underage children are believed to be involved in the prostitution industry, which are replaced or supplemented by about 900 children each year.
The most common ways Thai children are involved in prostitution are:
- Sold or rented by their parents or guardians, often extremely poor and desperate. Often a middleman is used to facilitate the deal.
- Homeless or runaway children use prostitution as a means of survival.
- Pressure from family, siblings or friends forcing children to work in the sex industry.
- Victims of scams or unscrupulous people, who take advantage of the bad situation and force the children into prostitution.
- Victims of rape, sexual abuse and assault, often afraid to speak about it, become prostitutes. This is especially true for children, who experience this at home.
Almost all children are trapped in the industry after just a few clients, their innocent minds are easily deformed, and they are afraid to turn to the police or their parents. Once the children have started in prostitution, the idea that sex is an easy way to earn a lot of money takes shape. They are, as it were, trapped in the sex business and in the long term that offers little perspective and hope for a relatively "normal" life.
Traded
Only a very small proportion of children who become prostitutes work independently, mainly due to the real risks and dangers involved. Most children, once involved in the industry, are monitored or managed by an agent. Children are often bought or traded between agents or companies to provide variety to their clientele. In addition to the local Thai children, many agents in Pattaya also have children from neighboring countries, such as Cambodia and Laos "on offer". The cost of an 8-year-old child from Cambodia is approximately 8.000 Baht.
Agents are the link between customers or potential customers and the children themselves. An agent may deliver the child to a client or open an illegal brothel, usually shielded by a legitimate company, where clients can come discreetly. Agents or managers will pay the child a small portion of the price and keep the vast majority of the earnings.
Education and Outreach
At first glance, it seems almost impossible that Thailand can eradicate child prostitution and the sexual abuse of minors. It is absolutely necessary that children are better informed at a young age about the dangers and negative sides of prostitution. Community outreach programs and dedicated hotlines would also be a means of explaining to children that there are other choices and ways to exit the industry.
In conclusion: As with most problems in Thai society, education is the key to change, but good top-down policies are essential to halt a systematic increase in this horrific industry.
People who engage in these practices should be arrested and severely punished
This article was recently published in Pattaya Daily News.
I don't really want to waste words on this, but; those who use the “services” of those girls cannot be punished hard enough, the parents who sell their children? no matter how poor they are, I can't reach it with my blunt mind.
Just because sex with children is for sale doesn't mean you have to buy it.
Give those children their youth and keep firing away from them.
When there is no more demand, the supply also ceases.
The education system cannot change this, only the legal system can change this, crack down hard and unrelentingly on people who abuse children, from parents to pimps to customers.
Sorry for my harsh words, but I always get a little angry when it comes to child abuse
Dear,
You are absolutely right, if you still want sex so much then go to a club (yes right), and what I read about the punishments I think is still little 20 years (I mean that) but who am I.
It is also the case that a number of large renovated clubs in pataya work with these children via via dan, but if the pedo is caught he is the dick because then it is betrayal and he is arrested the child has one (or more trauma) in such an invasion they let the act take place first and then catch you in the act.
But the bastards who use these lures are big boys there and are allowed to explore those tents and go free to look and they shouldn't.
Because such a gang boy who brings the children to the abusers must also be caught believe me if he is caught he can enjoy further in the BANGKWANG but the big boy who manages everything counts it on the super rich who remain unaffected.
I experienced in Pataya that a mother was walking on the street at night in walking street at soi 15 it was a poor slob who wanted to take mother to the hotel but if I wanted I could use her daughter too. I walked on and went to the tourist police and they intervened. My wife (Thai) was afraid because she thought there would be problems, well if you involve the Thai police then the farrang is usually the dick.
There is now a danger that if you ask such a girl for her ID card and see the age that they are still young, nl15, but probably even younger because in the future the new Thai government wants to make the ID card mandatory from about 7 years old. 8.
No, child abuses hum in the BANGKWANG and the nice thing is in the prison pedos and other sex offenders are dealt with very hard by other prisoners within these walls. So 20 years is not enough in my opinion.
Peace.
The newspapers were full of it about 4 years ago.
Complete with his photo and in the news on television, unfortunately in the Dutch newspapers with a bar in front of his eyes.
The person who received 37 years in prison lives here under a different name because he had already had to flee in his own city in NL.
Before he was arrested, they had already committed 2 x attacks on him.
So that is not 20 years as I read here .
His Thai supplier has 27 years on his pants .
Almost everyone I speak to in the Netherlands starts talking about it, but I have not heard or seen anything about it. I even started to wonder "where? “. What I saw on TV is the guys from Cambodia.
But what seems to be common are such problems within the family and there is no punishment at all. Only from "You must never do it again". Furthermore, there are families who think lightly about it and are happy if they can marry off their 12-year-old daughter.
Nice piece, but with the danger of being quite wrong in the eyes of some or not telling the whole story (which is difficult because it is a very broad story).
Pedophilia also occurs in Europe, perhaps still much more if we Europeans want to believe. But indeed in a completely different way and scale than, for example, in Thailand.
I think there are 3 things behind this
1. In Thailand and other countries around the world, sex with younger people is considered normal. Please note I am not talking about sex with children under 12, but sex with people over 12 is also seen as pedophilia by most people.
2. In Thailand, as in other countries around the world, there is unfortunately still an economic situation for many people that encourages the resort to prostitution (and therefore also prostitution of young people).
3. Unfortunately, in Thailand, as in other countries around the world, poor education leads people to do things they shouldn't.
Unfortunately, in Thailand (but also in Cambodia) there is no serious policy against prostitution in general or against child abuse. The high-profile arrests are, as always, just for show. Very occasionally, Thais are arrested for child abuse, but that is within the family or family, the person reports to the police. I have never heard of the police doing a sting operation upcountry in a local karaoke bar or in Bangkok's hiso clubs.
Chang Noi
A good general overview of child prostitution, Gringo. Thanks.
Indeed Chiang Noi, as you say the 'high profile arrests are as always for show'.
That also explains the selective publicity in the international press when it comes to foreign pedophiles, while that is only the tip of the iceberg of the 'local custom'.
The same goes for the sex industry in general in Billboard Country, which is always associated with foreigners in the press and reports, yet we know from Thai research that only 5% of prostitution is accounted for by foreigners.
Very annoying and detrimental to the image of foreigners. I was back in Ghent a few months ago and told them that I had been to Cambodia and then you get a reaction like: "So, how were the little boys?"
I find child prostitution despicable in any form and anywhere in the world. However, numbers of 2000 children being abused in Pattaya is total nonsense. If Pattaya were to count 200 streets, that would mean that on average 10 children would be active in prostitution in every street of Pattaya. That is complete nonsense in my humble opinion. Also, most if not all hotels are very reluctant to let minors in because of the legal problems that can cause the hotel. Of course there are smaller guesthouses and perhaps some private homes where there is less strict supervision, but to regularly enter your apartment or guesthouse with a small child will still be noticed by the neighbors. The assumption that child prostitution is generally accepted in Thailand is based on a mistake.
In addition, perhaps a remark could also be made about that girl of 17 years (thus underage) who married in Isaan at the age of 13, gave birth to a child at the age of 14/15 and divorced at the age of 16 from the man who was under the influence of alcohol suffered from loose hands.
Should that 17-year-old (underage) girl, with the life experience of a 27-year-old Western woman, who offers her services on Beach Road in Pattaya be seen as an outgrowth of child prostitution? ? ? Oh no…..
Of course child prostitution occurs in Thailand but what to say about Belgium – Dutroux, in the Netherlands – Robert M , that swimming teacher, in Austria where they plummet like Dutroux even go to work with their own children or just pick one off the street – camp, etc., etc.
No, child sex is something that is reprehensible, but it is of all times and really occurs everywhere and to single out Thailand every time is no more than a stereotype. Like that sewer journalist Alberto Stegeman who once made a program about child sex in Thailand without showing a single child, but according to him, 20.000 children are abused every day in Thailand. You would almost get the impression that the mothers in the airports are offering their children and I always think that they were rogue taxi drivers.
Stop with that exaggerated nonsense about child prostitution in Thailand, look around you in the Netherlands, there are more Roberts M in the Netherlands.
Thank you for sticking up for Thailand. But child prostitution is something completely different from Robert M or Dutroux. That comparison is completely wrong and has nothing to do with prostitution.
I prefer no relativistic comments in my opinion. A 17-year-old Thai is underage, there is never an excuse for that. Not even if she looks 21. Sex with minors is also prohibited in Thailand. And even if it wasn't banned, it's highly reprehensible morally.
Khan Peter,
Completely agree! I would advise some forum members to do some homework before expressing personal opinions that are blatantly incorrect. For information the following link:
http://www.thewitness.org/agw/pusurinkham.121901.html
An estimated 800.000 (!) children under the age of 16 are trafficked as sex slaves in Thailand. Or would this also be excessive nonsense?
Kees,
You hit the nail on the head. It is a hidden and priceless event and a horrible problem. But to blame a country for this is not correct. The abusers are everywhere and nowhere, by chance Menno M Robert P etc etc run into the lamp. No one will give up their child for fun, and I repeat NO ONE. But can we imagine what goes through those people's minds when it does happen? I certainly don't, but I don't want to and can't judge them either. The only thing we can do about this is not to do it ourselves, by the way, it almost makes me vomit at the very thought. And also hope that the abusers are caught and convicted.
@ Joo, no one blames Thailand. Anyway, read the article again. Poverty is mentioned. Unfortunately, it occurs everywhere where poverty reigns, especially in Asian countries.
Hello Peter,
You are a moderator and so you can freely express your opinion and criticize other people and do not post texts.
Well 17 years old is underage for Thai law, but according to you, sex with a 17 year old is also morally reprehensible.
The law states 18 years as the age of majority and sex is therefore not legally prohibited.
But do you think sex with an 18 year old is not morally reprehensible?
The concept of 'moral' is independent of any legal interpretation. Using the concept of morality is personal. What is morally reprehensible for one person (I am not talking about sex/prostitution now) is not so for another. Detonating a bomb in the Kabul market is morally unacceptable to me, but there is a group of people who have no problem with this at all.
What if people in Thailand decide to raise the age from 18 to, for example, 21. That is quite possible. Then sex with a 20 year old (a minor in fact) is therefore prohibited. But according to your personal interpretation, morally acceptable.
Or do you adjust your personal perception of the term 'moral' as the law changes?
Pay attention Peter I have nothing against you and you keep a nice site that I like to read and I like to go on holiday to Thailand but try not to think in stereotypes.
You wrote: “But child prostitution is something completely different from Robert M or Dutroux. That comparison is completely wrong and has nothing to do with prostitution.”
That comparison is not wrong at all, the only difference is the lack of the financial component. Now think about this and don't get angry if someone tries to tell you something.
By the way, if I ever meet you in person, we will drink a beer together and maybe then you will realize that putting things into perspective and nuance is a sign of intelligence instead of thinking in stereotypes
Good luck with your site
@ Kees, I don't criticize anyone, and I don't get angry either, I give my opinion that's something else. And if we disagree with each other, that is separate from 'thinking in stereotypes'.
I would be very much in favor of banning prostitution under the age of 21. All over the world, by the way. Not that it would help directly, but many men would think twice about going with a (too) young lady. In the Netherlands that would reduce the 'lover boy' problem.
I am in favor of protecting the vulnerable in our society. That's what laws are for. My personal opinion is that paid sex with someone under the age of 18 is morally reprehensible. And if the legal limit is raised to 21, it is not for nothing. Then, as an adult, you can also ask yourself whether it is morally responsible not to care about that and to ignore it.
Clearly not a topic for discussion, but more of a taboo about which no dissenting opinion is allowed.
Well, you can always try to straighten out something that's crooked.
The question is why is something crooked, but you censor that.
The limit for prostitution in the Netherlands is also eighteen and there are calls to raise it to 21.
The term loverboy is actually just a fancy word for pimp.
The loverboy mainly tries to get vulnerable girls and women to work for him, such as girls who ran away from home, the mildly mentally handicapped, and unstable women.
Where the limit is now set at 18 years, girls above this age have a little more freedom because prostitution work is legal. If this limit is increased to 21, then the loverboy (read pimp) will have to work more underground and these girls will be even more dependent on him. So pheter this age increase only picks up more favorably
out for the loverboy.
@ Hans, Google it then you can read that this measure, which will probably be introduced during this cabinet period, has been taken to make it a lot more difficult for Loverboys and human traffickers.
I already did, pheter, the only advantage for the pimp is that she can't be tackled now because it is legal that the girls can work legally from the age of 18.
But further googling is also indicated that it is a disadvantage that more will happen underground with less visibility.
The loverboy's target group is the girls and women I mentioned, including those over the age of 21, for prostitution and human trafficking.
The working method of the loverboy, for girls under the age of 18, then only shifts to the age of 21.
Yes Kees totally agree with KhunPeter. I think you need to think a little more nuanced. Don't ask how old are you, but think nna, can I make this. You try to justify things that are definitely not possible. Only we shouldn't be more Catholic than the Pope, I don't understand that either. Don't say this only happens in Thailand. This is happening worldwide and it's a pity that Pattaya has a name in this. I've been coming to Pattaya for a long time and I don't notice that it's different here than in other cities (I don't go to the entertainment centers of Pattaya in the evening, so maybe I thought a bit naively) Maybe then I would see more.
I am in favor of extermination in the sense of hefty punishments of everything and everyone that touches children, and by that I mean children where the law has an age attached to it and if that is 16 or 21 it doesn't matter. Furthermore, everyone must have so much heart in their thunder not to start at all) If you are a pedophile, grab a very small girl of 21, but stay away from those younger little ones. !!
I'll stop because there's so much to say about this. Ridiculous. It's that simple. DO NOT.
And Kees I also like a beer. Better talk about it over a beer than do it.
Peter I am happy with the response you have given to Kees. I am a volunteer of COSA, an organization that takes children out of the sex industry and gives them shelter in MaeRim where we are now building an extra house for the children. youngest is 5 years old. We found the eldest who recently joined via a smuggling route and was 17 years old, so underage. Fortunately, we were also able to save her from a life as a prostitute. All 16 children now go to school and we teach them to cook, wash and take care of themselves. Unfortunately, we do not receive a subsidy, so we have to rely on donations to allow the children to all go to school and, for example, to buy the uniforms. Now they are still against each other 1 space on a mattress on the floor because the money has run out and the house is half finished. But we persevere and want to help as many children as possible. You can check everything on http://www.cosasia.org and email us.
Let kids stay kids as long as possible.
@S.Swart
Reading this makes me cry closer than laughter. I have the greatest admiration for people like you who volunteer for these abused and undoubtedly severely traumatized children. Look for a lot of publicity so that the image of this problem changes and is no longer dismissed as “excessive nonsense”.
Exaggerated nonsense or just exaggeration maybe? It is RIGHT that something needs to be done about it and ALSO in the Netherlands (don't break my mouth) but that the streets are black with youth selling their bodies is really nonsense.
@ Did you read the article? It says that it is done anonymously, with intermediaries and under the cover of companies. There is nowhere in the article that the streets are black with children selling their bodies.
Another short comment from me. I think there is a big difference between older teenagers and real kids. In the Netherlands you also go out with your 15-year-old girlfriend, if her parents agree? And I have never seen or heard anything like this in all the years that I have been coming / staying in Thailand. And never from our schools either.
It will probably occur in Thailand, but just like in the Netherlands behind the scenes. But Thailand has the reputation of being a child prostitution country par excellence, while it is probably much more common in the Netherlands and surrounding countries.
What is a much bigger problem is all those bargirls who are forced to do such work.
No… thanks to Dutch TV, Thailand has a bad name and so do we, because we are the perverts who go to Thailand.
@ I don't understand this comment. We're talking about child prostitution, what does that have to do with older teens going out with each other?
I don't understand the comparison with the Netherlands either, but well, that must be just me.
One sees all monkeys and bears, perhaps there will be a big subsidy attached to it. The concept of child is a bit vague here. And I hate those exaggerated stories, because when I come back to the Netherlands I will be the dirty man again, just like the rest here on this blog.
I am at the forefront to prevent such practices, life is hard enough for many Thai people and their kids. I've only been home to 25 families, don't tell me anything.
I understand that you are disappointed that Thailand has that name. But denying isn't right either, Johnny. If someone looks at me because I'm going to Thailand, it's up to him. It's always the bad that ruin it for the good. That's the case everywhere.
No, I'm not denying anything, but 800.000 kids who are trafficked….. sorry, they come from other countries and are probably all 17. My wife and her colleagues have not had 25 case going on in the past 1 years. There are problems with family members, but no sale of sexual services by young people.
I have seen young girls walking on the boulevard in Pattaya, maybe they are 16. Child sex? They have bigger breasts than my wife.
Of course there are no reliable statistics because it is illegal. So I have no idea whether or not this figure is an exaggeration. In the years that I have been coming to Thailand, I have never been confronted with it and could sometimes get angry at the accusations. But if you don't see something, it doesn't mean it isn't there. And even if there were only 800, it would still be too much.
I don't have a solution to the problem, but downplaying it doesn't seem the right way either.
The ultimate source of information on child prostitution in Thailand and required reading for “ostriches”.
The United Nations: “Thailand ranks third in number of child prostitutes”
Follow the link: http://gvnet.com/childprostitution/Thailand.htm
The facts and statistics speak for themselves (including a cry for help in THIS forum from one of the many international aid organizations that care about the fate of these abused children: http://www.cosasia.org/
I'll rest my case and leave it at that. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
That the Thai government is cracking down on this child sex with the foreigners who come here for this disgusting child sex…excellent!
But now the same Thai government must finally start with a tough approach to the Thai men who easily remove children from 10 to 16 years old from school with the cooperation of the Thai teachers there.
Here in Isaan that is a normal thing.
Young pole climbers from the age of 12 in sex bars are also a regular occurrence here.
Mostly important Thai men who work for the government can relate to this.
That is why I am in favor of a total approach in Thailand and other Asian countries
this child (labor) sex.
I will not always argue with you about the rules on Thailandblog. Conform or stay away. There are no other flavors.
I have never actually noticed anything about child prostitution in Thailand, have never been approached about it and have never asked about it myself.
What I understand from my girlfriend is that indeed girls from about 13 years old get pregnant more often, when they start menstruating they are closely monitored by the parents, that no accidents happen.
I also understand from her that if an adult man has a relationship with a 16-year-old girl, and her parents have given permission for this, this will not cause any problem.
Now I have it on a voluntary basis and not forced prostitution.
The open karaoke and beer bars in Thailand have a minimum age of 18 years.
However, it often happens that 16 and 17 year olds offer their services voluntarily or not, without the farang having this in their mouth. So always ask for the ID card, although these are also available forged in the sex places.
This is not a plea for child prostitution, let that be clear.
Child labor is also abuse!
Indeed, but I think we are talking about "tourists" (both male and female) who, with a fat wallet, are deliberately hunting for sex with minors, in my opinion the dirtiest and lowest kind of tourists around.
The moment you consciously use your position of power (money) to indulge your base lusts on a child, you are not yet worth the air you breathe.
I'm not talking about 16 or 17 year olds, it's best to avoid being mistaken, the youth can get older, but if you don't trust it, always ask for an ID (indeed Hans), every Thai is obliged to carry it with him to have.
but if you mistake with children still younger, then you are (sighted) blind.
Now you hit a nerve, because child labor is everywhere in Thailand and I'm not talking about 16/17 year olds, but about kids around 10 years old. I see it every day, but under the guise that it is my niece, nephew, son or daughter, it is allowed by law. I see them working late at night for a tip of 500 baht a month. In the restaurant, at the pump and so on.
In the sex industry, such abuse will really not be 8 hours a day, after all, where do all those customers come from? In addition, “it is said” that there are 800.000 victims annually and mainly farang. If each had 2 clients per month, we would have 19 million pedophiles coming to Thailand every year. Yes Yes
Child labor, on the other hand, continues every day, time when the kids should be playing, serving guests or working on the land.
I should mention that Thailand is still keeping it neat to countries such as India and Sri Lanka.
Prostitution has existed for as long as man himself. Even in the animal kingdom, I thought with the Bonobos, sex is offered in exchange for food. Only we as human beings have (or should have) the ability to imagine what is possible and what is not possible. Although I am against prostitution in general, so certainly against child prostitution, we should be aware that a lot of frustrated people can do their "thing" here. Why do we read so little about women going to the gigolo?
The latter is true like a sore finger. 15 years ago I wrote an article about the 150.000 white women who go to the DomRep every year to pick out a virile 'Sanky Panky'. And what about the estimated 140.000 white women who hurry to Gambia to enjoy themselves with a 'localo'. The same goes for some North African countries such as Tunisia. Nothing human is strange to a woman either. But you never read about female sex tourism.
Hans I have met many women traveling alone over the years in the plane and in Thailand who were on holiday before that. Also with you in Hua Hin with the horse boys.
Once upon a time there was a blond Swedish girl who had them all. Indeed we are all human.
Why is child prostitution in Thailand so difficult to tackle:
Because those who should catch the pimps are the pimps.
And that's why it just keeps going. And because the 400 families that john writes about aren't interested in this at all.
I also knew an Esan man who sold three daughters at a very young age, one went to Pattaya, one to Hat Yai and the youngest to Singapore + sold a grandchild to a Thai for child prostitution.
He had a very expensive mia noi.
He never worked let his wife sell soup and sat all day watching his favorite fighting rooster in a cage.
This family has never known poverty, but a lot of misery resulting from their culture.
But they don't see me there anymore. Bah.
Indeed Andrew, it is due to the culture, but also poverty, make no mistake. I have written a piece about COSA before, for which I am a volunteer, and I want to give a further explanation of how it can often happen and how the buyers work. The Isaan and the upper part of Thailand that's where most of the children come from. The buyer has a child in mind and sees where the father is in the evening (in whatever pub or whatever they call it). contacts the buyer and proposes to him to give him 3 thousand Bath if he is allowed to pick up the man's daughter in 6 months and then the man will receive another 3 thousand Bath. This really happened to us, COSA. The man goes on and tells his wife the next morning that he sold his 10 year old daughter and the woman is FURIOUS. The man regrets it but knows that he is dealing with the MAFIA and can be killed if he loses his daughter in 6 months He doesn't have a job so he decides to go into the drug trade to earn and give the 3 thousand Bath back when the man comes. But he is arrested and is now in prison. Fortunately, because we as COSa regularly After consulting with the village chiefs, we rescued the girl from the family and she now lives safely in MaeRim (ChiangMai). Now the mother has a big problem because she also had a 5-year-old daughter and she was terribly afraid that the man would take her when the six months were up. So now, last month, we brought the little sister to MaeRim and she is also safe. Once every few months, if we can afford it financially, we will let the mother come here come to see her daughters and to see that they are doing fine. Even the 5 year old already speaks a few words of English. We give that to all children every Saturday morning, also from the area for free and more and more are coming. reality and if more people would help then we can turn the tide and change the way of thinking. The children have to learn that is very important. Every child that is saved is 1 surely and what do you think of the Mother who is now alone at home and cries for her girls and, by the way, the Father who was so tricked. Let everyone help. We work on a Non-profit basis and always have 3 or 4 volunteers from all over the world. Only the house we are building now is unfortunately not yet ready for the oldest girls because the money has run out to buy materials. Here too everything will become more expensive, we will notice that in everything. Fortunately, we have our own fruit trees and vegetable garden from which we can eat, so no hunger. This is a TRUE story so now no more fairy tales on this forum please... it's not true. I'm going to continue here until I die even if I get a bullet from that thug.