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Police arrest mother, pregnant pimp for trafficking 14-year-old
Panthippa Kampan (left) and
Jiraporn Sa-ngob (right) have been arrested for allegedly pimping out Jiraporn’s
14-year-old daughter.
Theerarak Suthathiwong
Human-trafficking police rescued a 14-year-old Rayong
girl allegedly pimped out for prostitution by her mother and sold to
foreigners by a pregnant Pattaya woman.
Using an undercover foreign police volunteer as cover, police May 21
arrested Panthippa Kampan, 38, after she allegedly took 1,500 baht for the
child at the Paragon Place Apartments in Naklua. Inside, officers found the
girl sitting in a towel and robe.
Panthippa reportedly confessed to police she’d been hired for 500 baht by
the girl’s mother, Jiraporn Sa-ngob, to sell her daughter to foreigner
tourists.
The alleged pimp, two months pregnant, said she needed the 500 baht for an
illegal abortion.
Questioned by police, the 14-year-old told police she’d been raped by her
cousin when she was 9 and that her mother forced her to drop out of school
in sixth grade. After that, she was pressed into working so her Jiraporn
could pay back the money for 13 watches that disappeared from a Royal Garden
Plaza boutique where she once worked.
Panthippa, charged with human trafficking and pandering a minor, was
persuaded to contact the girl’s mother for a meeting. Police then took the
mother into custody while a formal arrest warrant was prepared.
The victimized girl was placed under the care of the Social Welfare
Department.
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