People on a street in Taiwan. Photo by Reuters
A Thai woman suspected of coercing her teenage daughter into sex work in a high-profile case in Japan was deported from Taiwan on Dec. 22 for prostitution-related offenses and violating immigration laws.
The woman entered Taiwan from Thailand under a visa-free arrangement and was found to have violated a law regulating prostitution and overstayed her permitted period of stay, Kyodo News reported citing the immigration agency as saying.
The police had detained her and transferred her to immigration custody, Nippon newspaper reported.
Japanese police previously said the girl, then 12, came to Japan with her mother in late June and is believed to have been left on her own to perform sex work at a private-room massage parlor in Tokyo’s Yushima District.
The girl is believed to have served about 70 customers between June and August.
In November, Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department arrested the male manager of the massage parlor for allegedly violating the labor standards law by employing the girl, well below the legal working age.
All her earnings, totaling more than 600,000 yen, were kept by the manager and the amount, minus the shop’s share, was sent to her mother, according to the Japanese police.
The girl contacted the immigration authorities for help in September, according to Japanese police.
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