Nguyen Bich Tuyen (L)




A Ho Chi Minh City court Thursday sentenced three women to 6-12 years in prison for sending Vietnamese girls in the sex trade on the Chinese island of Macau.

Twenty six-year-old Nguyen Bich Tuyen, a former masseuse was jailed 12 years, and her subordinates including her younger sister 6 years and another woman 8 years.
Tuyen once worked in Macau as a masseuse for over a year since 1999 and in 2003 started to collude with a Chinese person to recruit Vietnamese rural girls once she was back in Vietnam. This Chinese person is now at large.




The girls had to pay them US$2,500 to be sent to Macau to work at massage parlors as promised. Tuyen would earn $300 per girl.

But once in Macau, they would be forced into prostitution.

N.T.T told the court Tuyen told her she would work as a masseuse earning high income but once in Macau, she was played a porn film and asked to do the same thing with clients. When N.T.T refused, Tuyen demanded her to pay $2,000 back before sending her back home. Thanh Nien