Unfortunately, despite frequent Police raids and arrests of foreign women at a budget hotel at Lorong 15, Geylang Road, new batches of girls arrived within days standing and soliciting in the vicinity as the pimps watched over them.
The following photos shows a Sri Lankan pimp at a nearby coffeeshop watching over the girls as they stand along the street despite the raining season.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Sri Lankan pimps' presence threaten the security of the neighbourhood
Wishing All A Happy and Peaceful New Year for 2009.
A comment was made by winterstome on 4 Dec 2008 in response to a news article " Sri Lanka sex ring exposed in S pore" posted on the lankanewspapers.com website.
"Prostitution is legal in Singapore. that provided they have to go for medical check up and get license.
how ever, sri lanakans don't flow the rule.
Sri Lanakans get slandered in Singapore, take the paid / un paid job as pimps.
most of the woman aged 20-25years brought over to Singapore as business, they asked to go for the cheap prostitutions to Bangladesh and Indian workers who work as a contraction and street cleaners in Singapore.
rate is the lovers as $25 for a sri lankan girls, where as china girls start at $80 per 20 min.
due to their skin color age and fat.
sri Lanakan woman work as free lance sex workers in Singapore, they don't have license. if police arrives they have to run away, so sri lankan pimps gives the tips etc,
how ever, the pimps are sri lanka colombo born ager 30-35 years. they don't have a clue of Singapore police.
how ever, the sri lankans girls were told that pimps pay money to police and have big contacts like in sri lanka.
normally the poor girls got cheated in that way, once the police arrives, pimps are the one runs away first, also pimps makes the forge visa stamps for the girls.
pimps uses to get a commission of $5 or more for their service to them. normally Colombo born unemployed man 30-35years works as pimps in Singapore. from the hair cut it shows where they from.
after a mon or so, the girls will return to sti lanka back as tourists. with lots of electronic goods etc, and they come back again and make the air ticket money and some for their expenses, and good life in Singapore.
This case is very bad, may be due to the bad attitudes of sri lankan girls, not knowing about the sex trade, could be a forigner want to have sex with sri lankan girl, due to her attitude, he would have killed her.
normally contraction workers from India are very rude. sri lankans and they cant get along in most of the cases. since sri lankan girls sold for cheap, they approach them.
however, its a sad story to have a sri lankan girls body under a red light district in Singapore known as Geylang.
this trade happening for last 7 years, now only it cames all in the newspapers due to murder. "
How true the above comment made on the operation of the syndicate remains to be confirmed. Hence, we hope the Singapore authorities will look into this potential
problem that may threaten the security of Singapore.
Source http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2008/2/25147.html
A comment was made by winterstome on 4 Dec 2008 in response to a news article " Sri Lanka sex ring exposed in S pore" posted on the lankanewspapers.com website.
"Prostitution is legal in Singapore. that provided they have to go for medical check up and get license.
how ever, sri lanakans don't flow the rule.
Sri Lanakans get slandered in Singapore, take the paid / un paid job as pimps.
most of the woman aged 20-25years brought over to Singapore as business, they asked to go for the cheap prostitutions to Bangladesh and Indian workers who work as a contraction and street cleaners in Singapore.
rate is the lovers as $25 for a sri lankan girls, where as china girls start at $80 per 20 min.
due to their skin color age and fat.
sri Lanakan woman work as free lance sex workers in Singapore, they don't have license. if police arrives they have to run away, so sri lankan pimps gives the tips etc,
how ever, the pimps are sri lanka colombo born ager 30-35 years. they don't have a clue of Singapore police.
how ever, the sri lankans girls were told that pimps pay money to police and have big contacts like in sri lanka.
normally the poor girls got cheated in that way, once the police arrives, pimps are the one runs away first, also pimps makes the forge visa stamps for the girls.
pimps uses to get a commission of $5 or more for their service to them. normally Colombo born unemployed man 30-35years works as pimps in Singapore. from the hair cut it shows where they from.
after a mon or so, the girls will return to sti lanka back as tourists. with lots of electronic goods etc, and they come back again and make the air ticket money and some for their expenses, and good life in Singapore.
This case is very bad, may be due to the bad attitudes of sri lankan girls, not knowing about the sex trade, could be a forigner want to have sex with sri lankan girl, due to her attitude, he would have killed her.
normally contraction workers from India are very rude. sri lankans and they cant get along in most of the cases. since sri lankan girls sold for cheap, they approach them.
however, its a sad story to have a sri lankan girls body under a red light district in Singapore known as Geylang.
this trade happening for last 7 years, now only it cames all in the newspapers due to murder. "
How true the above comment made on the operation of the syndicate remains to be confirmed. Hence, we hope the Singapore authorities will look into this potential
problem that may threaten the security of Singapore.
Source http://www.lankanewspapers.com/news/2008/2/25147.html
Monday, December 1, 2008
Street Prostitution Pimps Terrorising Neighbourhood
Unfortunately, the presence of Sri Lankan pimps and syndicates have continue to
cause the increase street prostitution activities when new batches of young women and sometimes underages are brought into Singapore despite arrests of the women.
Photos depict one of the pimps who have been operating for more than a year. The presence of these pimps not only intimidating as they gathered in groups in the neighbourhood, are attracting crimes into the area as the area is perceived as lawless by the intended criminals.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Photos of Sri Lankan pimps and watchouts
Photos of Sri Lankan pimps and lookouts of the Sri Lankan prostitutes at Lorong 15, Geylang Road. These pimps (usually act as lookouts ) brought in new girls under social visitor passes each time when the girls are arrested and sent homes. The arrested girls will usually keep mum that they are under the pimps/lookouts.
Monday, September 8, 2008
Murder of a 21 years old Sri Lankan female
A recent news about the murder of a Sri Lankan female in a hotel at Lorong 18, Geylang.
See url (Yahoo news source from Channel News Asia )
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20080906/tap-969-police-arrest-20-year-old-man-su-231650b.html
Police arrest foreigner suspected of involvement in Geylang murder
Channel NewsAsia - Sunday, September 7
"SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a 20—year—old foreigner in connection with the death of a 21—year—old Sri Lankan woman in a hotel at Lorong 18 Geylang on Thursday.
The victim’s naked body was found under a bed in a pool of blood by hotel staff on Thursday.
After round—the—clock enquiries and extensive probes, police said the ethnic Indian man was tracked down and arrested at about 9.30am on Friday at Ama Keng Road.
A man will be charged in court on Saturday with murder. If found guilty, he faces the death penalty. — CNA/vm "
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Another update from the Singapore Police Force website, see url :-
http://www.spf.gov.sg/mic/2008/080905_geylangmurderupdate.htm
Update to Dead Woman Under Bed in Hotel – Man Arrested
"A 20-year-old Indian man was arrested today in connection with the death of a 21-year-old female Sri Lankan national which occurred in a hotel along Lorong 18 Geylang on 4 Sep 08.
After round-the-clock enquiries and extensive probes following the discovery of the death, officers tracked down the man who was arrested at about 9.30am at Ama Keng Road. He will be charged in court on 6 Sep 08 for Murder under Sec 302 of the Penal Code, Cap 224.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
05 September 2008 @ 6.00pm"
See url (Yahoo news source from Channel News Asia )
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/cna/20080906/tap-969-police-arrest-20-year-old-man-su-231650b.html
Police arrest foreigner suspected of involvement in Geylang murder
Channel NewsAsia - Sunday, September 7
"SINGAPORE: Police have arrested a 20—year—old foreigner in connection with the death of a 21—year—old Sri Lankan woman in a hotel at Lorong 18 Geylang on Thursday.
The victim’s naked body was found under a bed in a pool of blood by hotel staff on Thursday.
After round—the—clock enquiries and extensive probes, police said the ethnic Indian man was tracked down and arrested at about 9.30am on Friday at Ama Keng Road.
A man will be charged in court on Saturday with murder. If found guilty, he faces the death penalty. — CNA/vm "
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Another update from the Singapore Police Force website, see url :-
http://www.spf.gov.sg/mic/2008/080905_geylangmurderupdate.htm
Update to Dead Woman Under Bed in Hotel – Man Arrested
"A 20-year-old Indian man was arrested today in connection with the death of a 21-year-old female Sri Lankan national which occurred in a hotel along Lorong 18 Geylang on 4 Sep 08.
After round-the-clock enquiries and extensive probes following the discovery of the death, officers tracked down the man who was arrested at about 9.30am at Ama Keng Road. He will be charged in court on 6 Sep 08 for Murder under Sec 302 of the Penal Code, Cap 224.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT
SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
05 September 2008 @ 6.00pm"
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Women trafficked to Singapore lured into prostitution
Information from url http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmnM4mWGQx52EtIAnioroCZ5u4_Q
Women trafficked to Singapore lured into prostitution
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Three weeks after having her appendix removed last year, Filipina bar girl Camille was forced by her pimp back to work as a prostitute in Singapore.
Penniless and deeply in debt in a foreign land, 24-year-old Camille, not her real name, had no choice.
She says she had sex with men in hotel trysts arranged by her pimp, who took most of the money, until she sought shelter at the Philippine embassy.
"My wounds barely healed and I was being forced to have sex," she told AFP, breaking into sobs during an interview before flying home earlier this year.
"The pimp had no pity. The men had no mercy. I should have listened to my parents not to come here."
Philippine embassy officials said Camille, a single mother, is among a growing number of Filipina women lured by human trafficking syndicates to Singapore, Southeast Asia's wealthiest economy.
Promised jobs as "entertainers" in pubs and restaurants, many instead find themselves virtually indentured as prostitutes, working to pay back the cost of getting here.
Women interviewed by AFP said they were locked in cramped apartments, given one meal a day and told they owed between 1,000 and 4,000 Singapore dollars (736-2,945 US) to their pimps for bringing them to the city-state.
The sex industry in Singapore -- where prostitution is legal but pimping and public solicitation are not -- is dominated by women from the Philippines, Thailand, China and Vietnam, industry sources said.
The Philippine embassy in Singapore said there were 212 cases of human trafficking involving Filipinas in 2007, up from 125 in 2006 and from 59 cases in 2005.
Of those 212, nearly 30 percent admitted to having engaged in prostitution or said they were coerced into sexual acts, it said.
Filipino consul Neal Imperial described the numbers as the "tip of the iceberg" as they reflected only women who turned to the embassy for help.
The US State Department, in its 2008 Trafficking in Persons report, put Singapore on its list of countries not doing enough to combat the problem. Cambodia and Sierra Leone were among others named.
The report urged Singapore, which has yet to ratify the 2000 UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol, to "vigorously investigate and prosecute both labour and sex trafficking cases".
Responding to the US report, Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said reported cases of forced prostitution fell to 28 in 2007 from 33 in 2006 and 35 in 2005.
Police investigated all 28 cases and found evidence in only one, the ministry said.
Human trafficking experts said Singapore's figures differ from the US report because the police do not consider women as trafficking victims if they arrive voluntarily.
In contrast, the United Nations counts women as victims if they are lured by false promises about working conditions, and if they are exploited.
Singapore should accept there is a problem, said Sallie Yea, an Australian consultant who has researched sex trafficking in Asia. "Singapore is still in the denial mode.".........
Women trafficked to Singapore lured into prostitution
SINGAPORE (AFP) — Three weeks after having her appendix removed last year, Filipina bar girl Camille was forced by her pimp back to work as a prostitute in Singapore.
Penniless and deeply in debt in a foreign land, 24-year-old Camille, not her real name, had no choice.
She says she had sex with men in hotel trysts arranged by her pimp, who took most of the money, until she sought shelter at the Philippine embassy.
"My wounds barely healed and I was being forced to have sex," she told AFP, breaking into sobs during an interview before flying home earlier this year.
"The pimp had no pity. The men had no mercy. I should have listened to my parents not to come here."
Philippine embassy officials said Camille, a single mother, is among a growing number of Filipina women lured by human trafficking syndicates to Singapore, Southeast Asia's wealthiest economy.
Promised jobs as "entertainers" in pubs and restaurants, many instead find themselves virtually indentured as prostitutes, working to pay back the cost of getting here.
Women interviewed by AFP said they were locked in cramped apartments, given one meal a day and told they owed between 1,000 and 4,000 Singapore dollars (736-2,945 US) to their pimps for bringing them to the city-state.
The sex industry in Singapore -- where prostitution is legal but pimping and public solicitation are not -- is dominated by women from the Philippines, Thailand, China and Vietnam, industry sources said.
The Philippine embassy in Singapore said there were 212 cases of human trafficking involving Filipinas in 2007, up from 125 in 2006 and from 59 cases in 2005.
Of those 212, nearly 30 percent admitted to having engaged in prostitution or said they were coerced into sexual acts, it said.
Filipino consul Neal Imperial described the numbers as the "tip of the iceberg" as they reflected only women who turned to the embassy for help.
The US State Department, in its 2008 Trafficking in Persons report, put Singapore on its list of countries not doing enough to combat the problem. Cambodia and Sierra Leone were among others named.
The report urged Singapore, which has yet to ratify the 2000 UN Trafficking in Persons Protocol, to "vigorously investigate and prosecute both labour and sex trafficking cases".
Responding to the US report, Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs said reported cases of forced prostitution fell to 28 in 2007 from 33 in 2006 and 35 in 2005.
Police investigated all 28 cases and found evidence in only one, the ministry said.
Human trafficking experts said Singapore's figures differ from the US report because the police do not consider women as trafficking victims if they arrive voluntarily.
In contrast, the United Nations counts women as victims if they are lured by false promises about working conditions, and if they are exploited.
Singapore should accept there is a problem, said Sallie Yea, an Australian consultant who has researched sex trafficking in Asia. "Singapore is still in the denial mode.".........
Street prostitution - a threat to the security of Singapore
The increase activities of street prostitution ( nationality PRCs, Sri Lankans, Vietnamese, Indians etc. ) are attracting crimes from gang fights, murders, robberies, cheats in Geylang neighbourhood.
Are these prostitutes act freely on their own independently ? This may be true in the past, however, it is observe more appears to act in groups with pimps, look-outs or some even with private vehicles or taxi to transport them around in Singapore.
Geylang residents ( more than 1,000 residents ) are constantly facing such threats or harassments from street prostitution for the past few years. In recent years, increase budget hotels, pubs/ktvs/nightclubs, uncontrolled shady coffee-shops, bogus health centres with insufficient enforcements or regulations have attracted crimes into Geylang and immediate neighbourhood (Haig Road, Sims Avenue) .
A video posted by a concern person of the the rampant street-walkers at Geylang.
Are these prostitutes act freely on their own independently ? This may be true in the past, however, it is observe more appears to act in groups with pimps, look-outs or some even with private vehicles or taxi to transport them around in Singapore.
Geylang residents ( more than 1,000 residents ) are constantly facing such threats or harassments from street prostitution for the past few years. In recent years, increase budget hotels, pubs/ktvs/nightclubs, uncontrolled shady coffee-shops, bogus health centres with insufficient enforcements or regulations have attracted crimes into Geylang and immediate neighbourhood (Haig Road, Sims Avenue) .
A video posted by a concern person of the the rampant street-walkers at Geylang.
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