Ex-soldiers used to recruit prostitutes

Ex-soldiers used to recruit prostitutes

The ex-soldiers posed as talent scouts or media professionals. Image source: Chinasmack




















A Taiwanese prostitution ring thatused newly-discharged soldiers to recruit underaged girls as prostitutes has been cracked.

Chinese news site ChinaSmack reported that the ring-leader Li Shufen and her husband groomed the soldiers into fashionable young men who then used the promise of money and love to recruit girls.The ex-soldiers also posed as talent scouts or media professionals.According to the news site, the girls were taught prostitution skills by an instructor, who then filmed the process. These videos were used as instructional tools for other girls to learn from.Netizens had mixed reactions towards the busted prostitution ring. Some said the ex-soldiers should not be doing this, while others were bemused by the fact that such professional recruitment techniques could surpass Japan's pop idol culture.Others said that this was nothing compared to other prostitution rings in Japan, Europe or the United States.Similar incidents have surfaced across Asia. In China, two leaders of a prostitution ring were arrested and sentenced to death after they forced hundreds of women to work in brothels in Chongqing.Malaysia and Korea also have their fair share. A mobile prostitution ring in Georgetown, Malaysia, which used Thai women was busted after a police raid. In South Korea, a former US soldier was arrested for opening a website to introduce foreign men in Korea to female escorts who were actually prostitutes.Source: Asiaone

Published May 2 2011