Recently, there is a disturbing news about an alleged force prostitution in Geylang, such crimes are not uncommon.
Source: Electric New Paper link http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,192319-1234303140,00.html?
" They live in fear after woman's daring night escape
S'pore woman shelters victim. Now, she says someone is offering cash to find out about her
By Vivien Chan
February 10, 2009
HOW far would you go to help a woman who says she is being kept against her will in a Singapore brothel?
One Singaporean housewife kept in touch by phone, went to look for her in Geylang, and took the troubled Indian national into her own home.
The drama, which stretched over two days, included a number of furtive phone calls made by the captive woman, Rani (not her real name), a string of men who were not much help, and one who finally arranged a night escape in a taxi - and then exacted a heavy price for it.
None of those involved are being identified by their real names, in order to protect both the victim and her saviour.
The latter, Madam Mary, who is in her 30s, told us the story. Rani declined to be interviewed.
Rani, 27, arrived in Singapore on 25Jan, said Madam Mary. She had travelled here with Neela, a woman from her home town who has worked in Singapore for more than 10 years.
A few months ago, when Neela was in India, the two had met there.
Neela offered Rani a job as a maid in Singapore, paying 10,000 rupees ($310) a month.
As Rani's sister is also a maid here, Rani thought the deal was good, and agreed, hoping to use the money to pay for her daughter's marriage some day.
Rani has three young children, but is separated from her husband in India.
She did not tell anyone about coming to work in Singapore because Neela had told her that her prospective employer would not like it.
Neela allegedly paid for and arranged Rani's flight and visa .
But almost immediately after the plane landed in Singapore, Neela told Rani what she had really been brought here for - to be a prostitute.
She also learnt that Neela had been a prostitute all along, and not a maid, as she had thought.
They were met at Changi airport by Neela's boyfriend, who drove them to a house in Geylang.
On the way there, Rani is said to have repeatedly told Neela to take her back to India.
Threatened
At the house, Neela and her boyfriend allegedly threatened to beat her if she did not obey them.
The next day, they made her stand outside the house, but within the compound, to get customers.
She was not to leave, but was asked to use a room in the house.
It was not clear how, but Rani managed to make one phone call to her sister, who had gone back to India on leave.
After hearing of Rani's predicament, her sister gave her the number of her Singaporean employer's friend, Madam Mary.
Rani's sister in India then called Madam Mary, to tell her about Rani's distress call and pleaded with her to help.
But there was nothing much Madam Mary could do then except wait by the phone.
Around 4pm that day, she got a call from a man who said he was with a woman named Rani.
The man said they were on the second storey of a double-storey house on Geylang Lorong 24.
He said he had been walking by the house when Rani, who was standing outside, grabbed his hand and pleaded with him to let her to use his handphone.
Before Madam Mary could ask more, the phone line went dead.
At around 7pm, another man called. He asked Madam Mary if she was Rani's employer, and said Rani wanted her help.
Said Madam Mary: 'I told him to call 999, but he said he dared not use his phone to dial 999. He asked me to go to the house if I wanted to help her.'
The man then ended the call.
Three hours later, at 10pm, a third man called. He said Rani was crying outside the house and was wearing a white sari with black dots.
He passed the phone to Rani. Madam Mary said she asked Rani why the phone call from the first man was cut off abruptly.
Rani told her that the first man was caught by the 'prostitution leader', who threw his phone away and beat him up.
Madam Mary said the third man was also too afraid to help.
She decided there was nothing much she could do then, and went to sleep.
The next morning, she made a police report. And that afternoon, she said, she got a friend to drive her to Geylang Lorong 24.
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.......Madam Mary said: 'Rani also told me that there are close to 40 prostitutes from India and Bangladesh in that house, and about five are being held against their will.'
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