Malaysia's New Trafficking Law Leads To First Conviction Over Prostitution Case

An Indian woman has been sentenced to eight years in jail by a Malaysian court in Kuala Lumpur for forcing her 33-year-old compatriot into prostitution, thus becoming first person to be convicted under the country's new Anti-Trafficking In Persons Act.

The court was told on Monday that the victim had been promised a maid's job (with a monthly salary of about Rs 6000) by her Indian agent Punitha Raja (32), local media reports said.

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Comments

[mergina]

ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. LET'S GO GET THEM ALL.

[xxnounxx]

Good for malaysia..i hope other countries take a leaf out of their books.
all pimp,prostitutes,drug dealers ,child trafickers,should rot in jail.

[Tatiana]

Don't get how and why some people can be so cruel?
A brain defect or lack thereof. Certainly a void in moral conscienceness.

[GeorgeP922]

I hope America takes the good example Malaysia has shown and take Trafficing more seriously.

Whats sad is here in America, we don't have a war on Human Traficking but we have a 20 year multi-trillion dollar war on drugs.