Auburn, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Australia
Daniel Sweeseang Kwok, Jenny Lai Chin Ong, Raymond Aik Tong, Hosea Panyud Saputra Yoe deceptively recruited three Indonesian women to travel to Australia to work in the catering or public relations industries. They were only informed upon arrival in Australia that they were in fact to be engaged in sex work. Only then were they told that they would have to perform 800 sexual acts for no payment to repay a ‘contract debt’ of which they had no prior knowledge. The women decided that they were not prepared to undertake that sex work and managed to escape from the apartment of Ong and Tan in Auburn on 14 June 2003.
Location
Australia · Auburn, Sydney, NSW, Australia · 2003 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
The traffickers were prosecuted in the NSW District Court with conspiracy to cause women to be placed into sexual servitude under ss. 11.5 and 270.6(1) of the Criminal Code. Evidence was to be called from nine women in the District Court trial. The current status of this case is unknown, but it is assumed that it not proceed to trial. Two related cases were heard in the NSW District Court and Court of Criminal Appeal on 4 and 15 July 2005 regarding non-publication orders in relation to the names and identities of the witnesses in this case, the women who had been trafficked.
Three women escaped the home of Ong and Tan in Auburn on 14 June 2003 and reported to the police. Then the Australian Federal Police investigated their allegations and prosecuted Ong, Tan, Kwok and Yoe.
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