What has become of Malaysia? Is this the kind of things that are allowed to happen here? Is there lax enforcement at the border or by the local police and immigration authorities?These are rhetorical questions. No answers required.
Such news item are are a bane for Malaysia.Let us read one of the happenings.
November 19,2009:
City police today rescued 14 Thai women and a 15-year-old Thai girl who were forced to work as “hostesses” after being lured into the country on the promise of lucrative jobs.
A team of 11 police officers found the victims, aged between 20 and 30, in four different locations around Cheras — four at the Awana Puri Condos, three at the Taman Yulik Apartments and eight in two town-houses in Taman Midah, here.
DSP Razali Abu Samah, an officer with the Secret Societies, Vice and Gambling Unit at the Kuala Lumpur Police Headquarters, said the women came to the country legally but had overstayed as most of their visas and passports had expired, and that they were kept like prisoners at the locations.
“We believe these women were tricked into coming to the country by their ‘agents’ on the promise of getting decent jobs, but instead, they were forced into selling their bodies,” Razali told reporters at the raid scene in Taman Midah.
A 37-year-old local man, believed to be pimp, was also arrested outside the Awana Puri Condos.
“It took us three days to observe their movements. And finally today, we could only arrest one of two suspects. We managed to grab him while he was taking the girls to see the clients,” he said.
During the four-hour operation, which started at 1.30pm, police seized a car with several packets of condoms and lingerie inside. Investigation revealed that the girls were locked up in the houses and were fed once every three days.
Apart from that, there was electricity but no water supply in the houses and the women were only permitted to come out during night when they were taken to see the clients, he added.
Such inhumanity. Have we descended to the level of animals?
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