8 young women were beaten and forced to serve customers in a karaoke bar
Dinh Thi Q. (born 2005, in Son Tay district) and a number of other waitresses were lured and tricked into serving customers and were regularly beaten and abused. She recounted: "They took me into a private room with a number of other female employees and beat me mercilessly"...
Mr. Ho Van Lam (born in 1972, in Tra Son commune, Tra Bong district, Quang Ngai) sent a petition to Quang Ngai Provincial Police, stating that his daughter Ho Thi N. (born in 2005) and her friend Ho Thi B. (born in 2007, in Tra Xinh commune, Tra Bong) and Ho Thi H. went to work together, but were later lured into a karaoke bar in Tu Nghia district to serve customers. Recently, Ho Thi B. escaped from the "devil's den" and returned to inform Mr. Lam's family that Ho Thi N. was still being held.
Royal Karaoke, where Tien and her accomplices locked up young girls and forced them to serve customers and sell sex.
According to Ho Thi B., around the beginning of February 2021, some friends invited B. and N. to Quang Ngai City to work at a coffee shop to earn money. However, B. was then taken to the Hoang Gia karaoke bar in Tu Nghia district. Here, the karaoke bar owner confiscated her papers and cell phone, forcing B. and some other girls who had just been brought there to sign a work contract.customer serviceWhen B. and some friends refused to sign the contract, they were beaten and forced to sign by karaoke bar staff.
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Royal Karaoke, where Tien and her accomplices locked up young girls and forced them to serve customers and sell sex. |
In this contract, there is a binding obligation to serve the customers. If the contract is canceled, the compensation must be tripled (about 15 million VND) to be sent home and the hands and feet of anyone who disobeys will be chopped off (!?). Many karaoke bar employees were beaten and tortured so no one dared to run away. Only B. managed to escape...
In addition, at this bar, there was also Pham Cong Dat who helped Tien manage the female attendants. At the Hoang Gia karaoke establishment, the police discovered 8 female employees locked in a room. When they saw the police officers arrive, the employees locked in the room were all happy to be freed. Many female employees were beaten by the bar owner, leaving them with injuries all over their bodies. Some female employees still had injuries from being beaten just a few days ago, including Ho Thi N. from Tra Bong district.
“Customers gave me tips, but I secretly kept them. When they found out, they beat me, causing injuries,” Ho Thi N. said, crying.
Dinh Thi Q. (born 2005, in Son Tay district) and a number of waitresses were lured and tricked into serving customers and were regularly beaten and abused. She recounted: "They took me into a private room with a number of other female employees and beat me mercilessly." Previously, Pham Van Tien's karaoke network in Binh Duong province...
At the police station, Pham Van Tien initially confessed that since February 2021, Tien brought 6 female employees from Binh Duong province to Quang Ngai province to serve the restaurant. In addition to using the old female employees, Tien and his accomplices increased their connections to lure and trick other girls in the highlands of Quang Ngai to the restaurant to force them to work as waitresses and sell sex to customers.
During the business process, Tien assigned Dat to directly supervise and manage the female room service staff and monitor the transportation of staff to prostitute themselves to hotel guests. All money that customers paid for the staff was confiscated by Tien. When the staff did not obey and prostituted themselves to guests, Tien and Dat beat and threatened them. Female employee H. indignantly said: "We were constantly beaten"...
During the inspection of the Royal Karaoke establishment, the police seized many means of committing the crime. The Tu Nghia District Police have decided to temporarily detain Pham Ngoc Tien; at the same time, they have taken the female attendants for examination and health and injury assessment to continue the investigation and expand the case./.