Unfortunately, some foreign women are often lured into prostitution under the watchful eyes of their pimps. The women have little or no protection against aggressive or criminal customer, neither are the operators of such sleazy budget hotels offer any security measures to prevent customers using their rooms for illicit or illegal trades.
There is a need to revamp the budget hotels to improve the regulations and enforcements to prevent street prostitution activities or vice rings to operate inside the hotels. Over the past few years, such hotels have become seeding for crime activities including illegal immigrants, prostitution, drugs related incidents, etc. The lawlessness of such vice rings and street walkers has turned the neighborhood into a ghetto affecting residents and families.
For instance, below is the Straits Times news of the gruesome murder of a pregnant Sri Lankan prostitute at a hotel in Lorong 18, Geylang Road in Sept 2008.
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Man admits killing prostitute
Jan 11, 2010
Man admits killing prostitute
By Carolyn Quek
HE HAD sex with a pregnant prostitute twice in a Geylang hotel but when Indian national Madhuri Jaya Chandra Reddy asked for the third time, she wanted more money.
A scuffle ensued, and the 21-year-old general worker ended up killing the Sri Lankan woman and stuffing her body under the bed. Despite this, he took her valuables, found another prostitute and brought her back to the same room for sex.
Reddy, who worked in a shipbuilding company, pleaded guilty on Monday to committing culpable homicide not amounting to murder in September 2008. He will be sentenced on Thursday.
The High Court heard that Reddy got to know the Sri Lankan prostitute, also 21, less than a month before he killed her. She was seven months pregnant with a boy when she died and had two other sons aged six and two.
He was arrested on Sept 5 2008, two days after he took her to the Diammond Hotel at Geylang Lorong 18.
Reddy faces the maximum punishment of a life sentence.
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Source: Straits Times news online
Monday, February 1, 2010
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Sri Lankan prostitution rings operate in budget hotel
Videos had been removed. We pray for Peace, Security and Harmony in this neighbourhood and others.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Is there a syndicate operating behind all these vice activities ?
With the Anti-Vice enforcements recently, many arrests of foreign women were made. Well done to the relevant personnel involved.
Residents and businesses are puzzle their persistent existence in the vicinity since 2005.
Serious questions are posed :-
Are there a syndicate involved as they appear to be in such organised manner appearing at same locations and hotels. For example, the soliciting activities are carried out in the public walkway of Lorong 15, Geylang and the clients are then brought into the Hotel at Lorong 15, Geylang Road to carry out the sexual transactions. The operator or the staffs working in the hotels are fully aware of their vice operation yet continue allowing them to rent the said hotel despite frequent raids by the authority.
Below shows recent photos depict more Sri Lankan pimps involve in the illicit trade. Without arresting the pimps or investigating with the possibility of a syndicate, the street prostitution
activities and associate crimes will not cease.
As the Chinese saying goes " 斩草不除根 , 春风吹又生 " ( When cutting down weeds, you must get at the roots. Otherwise, the weeds will return with the spring breeze. ); without removing the roots/sources of the problem, the problem will persist. Residents had also voiced out previously merely arresting the street prostitutes only alleviate the symptoms instead of the roots cause or "治标不治本 " .
Hence it will be a waste of public resources in carrying out the enforcements if the sources of the problems are not removed. Sources refer to persons, organisations or premises involved in the gathering, bringing in and watching over the women; arranging with hotel operators or premise owners to allow these groups to carry out the illicit trades in the rooms, etc.
We appeal to the authorities to conduct a thorough investigation as these activities have also put Singapore's international reputation at stake as a clean, safe and secure country for the citizens and foreigners.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
PRC Prostitute From Hell
Some budget hotels in Geylang do not care about the security or safety of their other guests when they allow street prostitutes and pimps to operate their vice activities in the hotels. Coupled with the HLB banning the operation of short-time room rates in other area like Joo Chiat and yet relaxing such regulations in Geylang( see http://www.singaporepropertytalk.com/joo-chiat-hotels-no-more-hourly-rates-t5361s40.html ), illegal street prostitution activities have increased.
For instance, one of PRC street prostitutes and her associates ( ie lookout guys or pimps ) have been soliciting publicly and operating at one of the budget hotels at Lorong 15 for more than 6 months.
With their male associates, these PRC prostitutes are able to escape from anti-vice raids or Police's arrests as they are able to hide in the budget hotel.
The following photos depict a PRC woman who has been aggressively soliciting along the walkways and her common hide-out in one of the budget hotels at Lorong 15, Geylang :-
For instance, one of PRC street prostitutes and her associates ( ie lookout guys or pimps ) have been soliciting publicly and operating at one of the budget hotels at Lorong 15 for more than 6 months.
With their male associates, these PRC prostitutes are able to escape from anti-vice raids or Police's arrests as they are able to hide in the budget hotel.
The following photos depict a PRC woman who has been aggressively soliciting along the walkways and her common hide-out in one of the budget hotels at Lorong 15, Geylang :-
Monday, February 16, 2009
They live in fear after woman's daring night escape
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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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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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
More youtube videos from public and news
As the new year 2009 begins, residents have become more baffled and frustrated by the continuous presence of aggressive street soliciting activities that emerged about 5 years' ago.
Residents have been requesting for continuous Police patrolling and enforcements in Geylang as there are more than 1,000 residential units in the area.
Meanwhile, more youtube videos and complaints were posted in the internet from concern individuals and organisation. Residents and families living in the neighbourhood of Geylang are feeling the stress of daily harassment, intimidation, embarrassment, inconvenience or safety worries caused by the rampant street prostitution activities. There are concerns or suspicion that some of the activities are linked to underworld groups or criminal syndicates.
Al Jazeera News reports - Prostitution thrives in Singapore - 23 Nov 08
Residents have been requesting for continuous Police patrolling and enforcements in Geylang as there are more than 1,000 residential units in the area.
Meanwhile, more youtube videos and complaints were posted in the internet from concern individuals and organisation. Residents and families living in the neighbourhood of Geylang are feeling the stress of daily harassment, intimidation, embarrassment, inconvenience or safety worries caused by the rampant street prostitution activities. There are concerns or suspicion that some of the activities are linked to underworld groups or criminal syndicates.
Al Jazeera News reports - Prostitution thrives in Singapore - 23 Nov 08
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