AAP General News (Australia)
02-05-2009
Vic: Sex slavery "dehumanising": judge
By Michelle Draper
MELBOURNE, Feb 5 AAP - Enslaving women for prostitution is dehumanising and "about
as bad as it gets for a woman", a Supreme Court judge said.
Justice Chris Maxwell delivered a withering rebuke during an appeal by a former Melbourne
brothel owner against her jail term for enslaving five Thai women as prostitutes.
Wei Tang was sentenced to 10 years jail in 2006 for forcing the women to serve 900
clients to work off debts of $45,000 each at her inner Melbourne brothel, Club 417.
Her conviction was quashed and a fresh trial …
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