Cambodian woman cheated by brokers into marrying Chinese man
(December 01, 2020 at 9:51 pm)

Cambodia News, Phnom Penh: The Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit stated that on November 30, 2020, the Department received information from the Quick Reaction Team of the National Police General Commission regarding the posting on Facebook social network of an account named Veasna. She is a Cambodian woman calling for help, saying that she has no freedom to live after cheating brokers married her to a Chinese man, and she begs the Cambodian authorities to intervene to help her return home to Cambodia.

On December 1, 2020, the professional officers of the department sent more information including a Facebook account with the address of the Chinese husband's identity card to the Mekong Lanchang Secretariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as a basis for rescue research. According to the text, the victim is identified as T**** Sophy, 20 years old, from Khsep Krao village, Khsep Krao commune, Snuol district, Kratie province.

The specialized forces are searching for the woman's relatives to assist them in filing a legal complaint and to identify the illegal broker.
His Excellency Lt. Gen. Chiv Phally said that the Department is currently cooperating with the Mekong Lanchang Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and all relevant institutions to find clues to the whereabouts of the above victim, in order to have a real basis to intervene and rescue her.

Sex Trafficking Victim Posts a Call for Help From China
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Tran Techseng| Wed Dec 2, 2020 9:42 pm

The woman was a 17-year-old girl when she left her hometown in Kratie province. A broker in Phnom Penh soon promised her a “good job” in China, and she left the country behind. Two and a half years later, on Saturday, she was able to post a message on Facebook.

“They’ve forced me to take husbands here. They said if I don’t take them as husbands, they would sell me to a brothel.”

“No phone calls. Can’t talk. Only writing is possible,” she wrote. “I want freedom, and to meet my family again.”

On Wednesday, the woman’s mother told VOD that she had begged her daughter not to leave.

“I told her, please don’t go, just stay here,” the mother said.

But the daughter replied: “Mother, if I don’t go, we won’t have a house or land. And you are sick. If I work here, I won’t make enough.”

The daughter left in May 2018 with five other women aged 17 to 20 after the trafficker promised them jobs in China, the mother said.

The mother heard from her daughter after a week.

She had to walk for five days to the Chinese border. And there was no job, the daughter said. She would have to marry a Chinese man, but she could send money home.

During the first year, the daughter sent $2,000 to her mother, who bought a small house and plot of land in Kratie.

But the payments stopped, and conditions went from bad to worse. The daughter was sent to a second house, where family members locked her inside and took turns keeping watch over her.

The mother said her daughter was able to sneak calls to her occasionally, and told her she had been raped.

“My daughter called me and told me: I couldn’t run away, mother. I ran twice. But now they are locking me up more.”

Once, a Cambodian woman in the area helped her reach the local police station. But the Chinese family simply took her back from the police, the mother said.

In October last year, as the mother learned of the abuse, she went to Cambodian authorities for help. They asked her to wait, and this year, as Covid-19 took hold, she was asked to wait longer, she said.

“Wait a bit, wait a bit, wait a bit,” the mother said she was told. “ have been waiting until my daughter suffered too much. … She couldn’t endure it any longer, and that’s why she took the photos and posted them to seek help.”

The daughter had used the phone of the Chinese man she was forced to live with, posting the message as he sat across from her unaware of what she was doing, the mother said.

“I have been so sad, crying every day,” the mother said.

Nov Ratanak, deputy chief of Kratie provincial police, said authorities had received the case in October last year but did not know the victim’s location and could not communicate with her.

But with the Facebook post, they had been able to locate her, Ratanak said.

The daughter has been brought to a local police station and is waiting for Cambodian embassy officials to prepare legal documents to get her back to Cambodia, she said.

Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Koy Kuong said the Cambodian Embassy in China was working with Chinese authorities to intervene and save the victim as soon as possible.
https://vodenglish.news/sex-trafficking ... rom-china/

Facebook is blocked in China and only accessible by those with a VPN. I wonder why the husband's phone would have been linked to a VPN with access to Facebook. Probably not your typical Chinese farmer type.

The Chinese authority wouldn't tolerate such abuse...
Should make this news in weibo... Many chinese watch dogs would be able to help... The power of internet in China is very scary...