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West Coast Tiger
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posted 30 March 2006 01:33 PM      Profile for West Coast Tiger     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Woman 'tricked' into sex slavery

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VANCOUVER - A young Chinese woman allegedly forced into prostitution by the operator of a Kingsway massage parlour wept bitterly Wednesday when she remembered the day in 2002 when she first realized she had been tricked into a life of sexual slavery.

The woman, whose identity is protected by court order, told Vancouver Provincial Court Judge Malcolm MacLean that she had been brought to Canada by Michael (Wai Chi) Ng, who promised her a job as a waitress in his supposed seven-storey restaurant.

She came in on false papers supplied by Ng after he convinced her to come to Canada to work for him, the woman said through an interpreter.

Instead of a waitress job she was taken to a Ng's one-storey massage parlour at 2263 Kingsway and told she was expected to pay him $11,000 a month by prostituting herself.

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Ng is the first person in Canada to be charged with human trafficking and is facing 22 counts that include human smuggling, prostitution offences and offences against the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

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Eventually she would be taken back to China by Ng in December 2003 as part of a plan to bring someone into Canada through a phony marriage.

The woman worked in the massage parlour seven days a week from 11 a.m., sometimes until 2 a.m. the next morning in order to meet Ng's financial demands.

"In one year and five months I make him well over $100,000 dollars [in prostitution earnings] plus the $50-dollar-an hour he charged customers for a massage," she said.

Ng gave her a cheque for $1,500 a month and she was expected to sleep in the massage parlour or in his house, she said.

In the months she didn't make $11,000, she was expected to make up the shortfall from her salary.

During the time she was in the massage parlour she was raped and injured by some customers, she testified.



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JPG
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posted 30 March 2006 02:37 PM      Profile for JPG     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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Ng is the first person in Canada to be charged with human trafficking and is facing 22 counts that include human smuggling, prostitution offences and offences against the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

Good, I hope they catch all of these bastards.


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greenie
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posted 31 March 2006 05:45 PM      Profile for greenie     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Absolutely sickening. I hope they catch all the "johns" too.
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het heru
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posted 01 April 2006 12:19 PM      Profile for het heru     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I'm just wondering why the word "tricked" is in quotes.

It almost implies she's lying.


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Loretta
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posted 01 April 2006 12:22 PM      Profile for Loretta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I agree, het heru, but I wonder if someone thinks they're being rather "punny". For many years in one community in which I lived, everytime the local reporter covered the events of our local breastfeeding support group, the headline read "[the group name] is keeping abreast of the times." (We stopped inviting them after the third time.)

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otter
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posted 02 April 2006 05:31 PM      Profile for otter        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Nor are such examples as the one in Vancouver isolated incidents. In fact the selling of both women and children of all ages into lives of slavey is just another growth industry in the global marketplace.

As a lesson to all other exploiters, the women in this instance should be granted immediate status as landed immigrants and the men who acted as their pimps be forced to forfeit all their assets which would then be converted to cash and given directly to these women.


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Loretta
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posted 02 April 2006 09:42 PM      Profile for Loretta     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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As a lesson to all other exploiters, the women in this instance should be granted immediate status as landed immigrants and the men who acted as their pimps be forced to forfeit all their assets which would then be converted to cash and given directly to these women.

I concur, wholeheartedly.


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Wilf Day
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posted 19 May 2006 03:26 AM      Profile for Wilf Day     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
There are an estimated 25,000 Goreans worldwide. Unfortunately, the number of small-g goreans is larger:
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The group, called Kaotians, follow the Chronicles of Gor novels which depict a society where women are dominated.

Lee Thompson, 31, says he is the "master" who trains the slaves at the Darlington address.

But he said everything the women are told to do, which includes cooking and cleaning, is "voluntary and safe".

"It works on the system that some women have a desire to serve," he told the Northern Echo.

He said: "Most people think it is a very sexual thing, but it is about every action that they make, they do it for their master.

"Saying that, the girls will do everything they are told when it comes to sex, but it is all voluntary and all safe.

The books are set on the quasi-medieval planet of Gor, which has a caste system and uses women as slaves.



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