Australia jails Thai woman for prostituting daughter

A Thai-born woman was jailed in Australia on Tuesday for prostituting out her own daughter from the age of nine, marketing her to clients as the "new girl" in crimes condemned as "despicable". The 41-year-old woman was jailed for nine years in the Brisbane Supreme Court after pleading guilty to 20 offences, including child trafficking and prostitution for putting her daughter into sex work at her massage parlour and brothel. It started when the girl, then just nine years old, visited her mother on holidays from Thailand in 2004 and continued when she moved to Australia two years later through to September 2011. The court heard that her mother advertised her as the "new girl" and sent her on callouts from as young as 11, threatening her with violence if she did not comply and encouraging her to seek gifts and offers of marriage.