My friend was a sex slave

28 December 2005 by dwb

I’ve known a Thai girl named Fon for a few years and I knew she went to Singapore to work at a hotel, but she came home early. I never knew the real story until last night.

Fon and I have been friends for a while and apparently she has not told anyone what happened and has kept it all bottled up for a long time now. She spent the night with me last night and after a few drinks, she felt comfortable enough to let it all out on me.

Fon was promised a well paying job in Singapore working at a hotel because her English skills are very good and she was willing to travel. When I heard about this I had a bad feeling about it and warned her to make sure that the people she is going to work for were good people and not in the business of trafficking women. Of course she did zero research and left for Singapore.

Upon arrival, Fon was sent to a hotel where they took all of her belongings and rushed her to the street where she was to stand with 100’s of other girls (Geylang) and wait for Johns to pick them up and take them to a cheap sex hotel.

She told them that there was a mistake and that she was not there not be a prostitute. They told her they paid a lot of money for her and that the boss spent money on her plane ticket, visa and hotel room. It was all to be paid back within the first 3 days.

In order to pay this money back, she had to fuck 80 (yes, 80) men for free and her boss would take all of the money. After that, she would then get a couple of bucks per fuck but she would then have to pay that for the room cost and for food.

Fon was trapped in a hellish cycle, forced to have sex as many as 30 times in one day with only 2 – 3 hours of sleep per night. This went on for a month until she met a customer who had a heart and wanted to help her out of the mess she was in.

The customer was able to sneak Fon to the Thai embassy where they helped her get back to Thailand.

Fon was in tears by the end of telling me all of this. She had gone into great detail about how the men would abuse her and sometimes she was forced into having sex with 4 – 5 men at a time and sometimes with boys as young as 12 years old.

She was beaten, starved, and forced to sleep in a filthy room with as many as 20 other girls. This is how she lived for a month.

I sat with her and let her cry on my shoulder for 2 hours until the sun came up.

What do you say to someone after hearing this? I chose to say nothing and just listened to her until she could not speak another word. Today I am still at a loss for words. She is sleeping on my couch as I write this. I don’t think I have ever felt so bad for someone in my life.

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