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Filipino women lured into Hong Kong sex trade arrested
Sep 3, 2009, 4:16 GMT
Hong Kong - Nine Filipino women have been arrested in a crackdown on syndicates trafficking women to work in Hong Kong's sex trade, police said Thursday.
The women were arrested in an undercover operation in which police raided a private club in the city's Wan Chai bar and nightclub district along with a nearby apartment.
The suspected prostitutes, ages 24 to 47, were brought to Hong Kong by a syndicate to work as maids and then enticed into the sex trade, police said.
More than 200,000 Filipino women work in Hong Kong as live-in maids for working families, doing housework and child-care duties for a government-set minimum wage of around 460 US dollars a month.
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