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The “thousand dollar” prostitution rings

Recently, the police of Bac Ninh province issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused and issue a temporary detention order for Nguyen Van Luan, SN 1987, in My Ha commune, Lang Giang district, Bac Giang for environmental behavior. prostitutes.

The recently dismantled prostitution line mentioned above hid under the name “sugar baby – sugar daddy”, priced at 12-20 million VND/month.

Before that, CAQ Cau Giay, Hanoi also prosecuted and detained Ha Trong Thang (SN 1993, Quang Nam) – the “boss” of a prostitution brokerage ring.

Through social networks, Thang knows that there are some male customers who want to buy sex in the form of “meeting and loving with a specific time, that is, buying and selling sex with monthly or daily payment at a specific price”.

Therefore, Thang created a group called “Sugar baby” and posted to connect customers who buy sex with Sugar baby (prostitute).

When consulting, Thang offered 2 different support packages. Package 1, “Daddy” has to pay 15 million VND and meet 6 times/month to have sex.

Package 2, the allowance is 20 million VND and meet 8 times a month to have sex. Winning an agreement with “Sugar Baby”, after successful brokerage, will have to cut several million dong. With “Sugar Daddy” Win collects 2 million wages after each brokerage.

From a legal perspective, Lawyer Le Hong Van – Hanoi Bar Association said that the “love – money” relationship between “Sugar baby” and “Sugar daddy” is actually a disguised prostitution activity.

If the traditional behavior of buying sex and selling sex often takes place in the form of “peeling and paying”, sex buyers and sellers are unlikely to have met again. However, sex trafficking activities in the style of “Sugar baby – Sugar daddy” often maintain a long-term relationship of buying and selling sex with the relationship of “adoptive father – adopted child”, so it has a more complicated nature.

To operate prostitution lines in the style of “Sugar baby – Sugar daddy”, criminals often use social networks, through closed groups and forums to find partners, so it is difficult to be detected by the agency. function. These groups and forums have from tens to thousands of members, clearly classified.

Type 1 includes a group of subjects who are sex workers (sugar baby), admin (manager) of the group who are professional sex brokers or admin who both broker and sell sex. Type 2 is a closed group consisting of a group of people who want to buy sex (sugar, daddy, mamy), admin.

There is also a forum that includes a full collection of 3 types of objects including “Sugar baby”, “sugar daddy”, admin. Objects can join many forums at the same time to search for “target”.

Prostitution brokers should be strictly handled

Regarding sanctions, according to Lawyer Hong Van, Vietnamese law prohibits the act of buying sex and selling sex. Accordingly, sex buyers, depending on the nature and seriousness of their violations, will be administratively sanctioned in the form of warnings or fines. Those who buy sex with minors or know they are infected with HIV but intentionally transmit the disease to others will be examined for penal liability.

Sex workers, depending on the nature and seriousness of their violations, shall be administratively sanctioned, subject to the measure of education in communes, wards or townships or sent to medical treatment establishments.

In case “Sugar baby” is a person under 18 years old, “Sugar daddy” will be criminally prosecuted for the crime of “procuring sex with people under 18 years old” according to the provisions of the Penal Code 2015 with a maximum penalty of up to 7 years. prison.

For acts of prostitution brokerage, this is a violation of the law. Article 328 of the Penal Code stipulates that those who act as intermediaries to seduce or lead other people to conduct sex purchase or sale shall be sentenced to prison. from 6 months – 3 years. Committing the crime against a person aged between full 13 and under 16 years old; If you gain illegal profits of 500 million VND or more, you will be sentenced to between 7 and 15 years of imprisonment.

The existence of a “love – money” relationship between “Sugar baby” and “Sugar daddy” has a negative impact on culture, social ethics, adversely affects the lifestyle of young people and the happiness of many families. , and at the same time causes many consequences for society.

Therefore, the authorities need to strongly handle the objects of prostitution, buying and selling sex in this form to ensure deterrence.