Sex slaves recruited to Australia, court told

Southeast Asian women were recruited and placed under contract bondage in Australia to service up to 900 clients each in the sex industry, a court has been told.

Danny Kwok, Hosea Yoe, Jenny Ong and her son Raymond Tan are standing trial in the New South Wales District Court for allegedly conspiring to bring eight women from Thailand and Indonesia to Australia as sex slaves.

The women were all of legal age.

Crown prosecutor Robert Sutherland, SC, said some of the women knew they would be working in the sex industry but others were brought to Australia under false pretences and all the women were then placed under a contract debt.

The women were told they had to work off a debt by either earning A$45,000 ($49,500) or having sex with between 500 and 900 people each.