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AN 11-year-old Thai girl who came to Australia almost seven years ago, <strong>with</strong> her Brisbanebased<br />
mum promising to give her a better life, was instead used as a child prostitute.<br />
The Brisbane Supreme Court was yesterday told that upon arriving in August 2006 the girl<br />
was put work in her mother's lucrative <strong>sex</strong>ual massage and prostitution business on<br />
Brisbane's southside.<br />
The mum even billed her <strong>daughter</strong> as the new star attraction, the court heard.<br />
The 41-year-old Thai-born mother, herself a prostitute, yesterday became the first person<br />
convicted under Australia's tough child trafficking laws.<br />
Justice David Boddice jailed the woman <strong>for</strong> nine years - saying her actions were ``shocking,<br />
despicable and reprehensible''.<br />
Prosecutors said the woman, then 33, first brought her <strong>daughter</strong> to Australia from Thailand<br />
<strong>for</strong> a six-week holiday in 2004 - when she put the nine-year-old to work providing <strong>sex</strong>ual<br />
services <strong>for</strong> cash.<br />
The court was told the mum made her <strong>daughter</strong> a partner in her <strong>sex</strong> business, run from her<br />
Runcorn home, from the age <strong>of</strong> 11 and even used the girl's “virginity” as an entice<strong>men</strong>t in her<br />
plans to marry the child <strong>of</strong>f to a cashed-up <strong>sex</strong> client.<br />
Prosecutor Todd Fuller, SC, said: “(The mother) regarded her <strong>daughter</strong>'s virginity as a<br />
commodity that she could sell.”<br />
The mother <strong>of</strong> three pleaded guilty to 20 Queensland and Commonwealth <strong>of</strong>fences, including<br />
child trafficking and procuring a child <strong>for</strong> prostitution.<br />
She also pleaded guilty to four counts <strong>of</strong> maintaining a <strong>sex</strong>ual relationship <strong>with</strong> a child, nine<br />
<strong>of</strong> indecent treat<strong>men</strong>t <strong>of</strong> a child under 16 and five involving a child under 12. Mr Fuller said<br />
the <strong>of</strong>fences had been committed between October 2004 and September 2011.<br />
He said the mother put the <strong>daughter</strong> to work serving numerous clients every week.<br />
The court was told the girl had four regular customers, including the woman's de facto<br />
husband, and had been photographed per<strong>for</strong>ming <strong>sex</strong> acts.<br />
Mr Fuller said the <strong>men</strong> had been charged, but had yet to stand trial.<br />
The woman will be eligible <strong>for</strong> parole in April 2017.<br />
An electronic copy <strong>of</strong> this docu<strong>men</strong>t is available at www.law.uq.edu.au/humantrafficking.<br />
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