The Sydney Morning Herald
Leonie Lamont
June 20, 2006

AS SOON as she got off the plane from Thailand, the 19-year-old woman was put to work in a Sydney brothel. But she was so “deeply unhappy” that she asked clients to phone the Immigration Department, so she could be arrested and released from her alleged sexual servitude.

One of those clients did ring immigration, said the Commonwealth prosecutor, Paul Roberts, SC, and on May 20, 2004, immigration officers and the Australian Federal Police raided a brothel at Strathfield. However, the woman had been moved to another brothel, at Penrith, where she was ultimately found. read more..

The Sydney Morning Herald
July 9, 2006

Abused and powerless, the victims of sex slavery in Australia have had nowhere to turn for help. Now, writes Erin O’Dwyer, a dedicated network of nuns are defying the lucrative trafficking industry and reaching out. read more..

The Sydney Morning Herald
Les Kennedy
June 9, 2006

FOUR Thai women were forced into prostitution and held against their will in a secret room underneath a Sydney brothel, a court has heard.

The women, all Thai nationals aged between 27 and 44, were found cowering in the bare room by Australian Federal Police and NSW Police during a raid with Department of Immigration officers on a Canley Heights premises yesterday.

Brief details of the forced incarceration were revealed when Trevor McIvor, 58, and a Thai woman, Kanokporn Tanuchit, 40, faced Central Local Court charged with 32 counts of allegedly holding the women against their will to work as sex slaves. read more..