joh
11-05-2019, 12:16 PM
Hi all
Found this in the CM yesterday. Pam from SS also gets a mentions at the end of the article. Seems like MP's are hitting the headlines or CM's are covering it more.
Magistrate’s blast over massage parlour prostitution
A BRISBANE magistrate has blasted a “distressing prevalence” of prostitution offences amid a series of police raids on massage parlours across the city.
Massage parlour owner Cui Xuguang, 36, is one of the first to be sentenced after police from the state’s prostitution taskforce raided his Rocklea business, on Brisbane’s southside, in March.
Four on prostitution charges after massage parlour raid
The Sunnybank part-time chef and trained accountant was one of three people charged after the raid on the Little Miss Massage parlour on Ipswich Rd.
He appeared before the Holland Park Magistrate Court last week, where Magistrate Simon Young raised a “distressing prevalence of this type of offence in this jurisdiction”.
Mr Young said he had heard at least five such matters in the past four to six weeks.
“Whether or not that’s an increase in the oversight or investigation of the industry or whether or not it’s just the way it works in this area I’m not sure,” he said.
Xuguang was fined $1500 for knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution between January and March.
He had “made a deliberate attempt to circumvent the prostitution laws in the operation of this business,” the court heard.
But the sentence recognised his “modest income” and loss of $45,000 spent buying the business in December last year.
Xuguang’s moment in court came after 25-year-old Miyuki Matsuya was fined $150 for “knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution by another” at the same massage parlour.
Outside court, he told The Courier-Mail he regretted entering the industry as “massage and prostitution” are “mixed up”. “(It’s) hard to separate these two,” he said.
He said the previous owner had signed a contract with the workers prohibiting sexual services. The business was bought off Gumtree, he said.
Xuguang said he assumed if the women did offer such services it was “not my problem.”
He said he realised some staff were offering extra services, but didn’t want to ask for fear he would lose customers. He said he never told staff to offer sexual services.
In another massage parlour raid the same month at The Gap police charged a 32-year-old business owner from Sunnybank Hills with running an unlawful prostitution business.
A 40-year-old woman was also charged.
Meanwhile, another massage parlour owner, East Brisbane Cloud 9 operator Choonhwa “Pam” Lee is defending charges in the Brisbane Magistrate Court of running an illegal prostitution business.
Found this in the CM yesterday. Pam from SS also gets a mentions at the end of the article. Seems like MP's are hitting the headlines or CM's are covering it more.
Magistrate’s blast over massage parlour prostitution
A BRISBANE magistrate has blasted a “distressing prevalence” of prostitution offences amid a series of police raids on massage parlours across the city.
Massage parlour owner Cui Xuguang, 36, is one of the first to be sentenced after police from the state’s prostitution taskforce raided his Rocklea business, on Brisbane’s southside, in March.
Four on prostitution charges after massage parlour raid
The Sunnybank part-time chef and trained accountant was one of three people charged after the raid on the Little Miss Massage parlour on Ipswich Rd.
He appeared before the Holland Park Magistrate Court last week, where Magistrate Simon Young raised a “distressing prevalence of this type of offence in this jurisdiction”.
Mr Young said he had heard at least five such matters in the past four to six weeks.
“Whether or not that’s an increase in the oversight or investigation of the industry or whether or not it’s just the way it works in this area I’m not sure,” he said.
Xuguang was fined $1500 for knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution between January and March.
He had “made a deliberate attempt to circumvent the prostitution laws in the operation of this business,” the court heard.
But the sentence recognised his “modest income” and loss of $45,000 spent buying the business in December last year.
Xuguang’s moment in court came after 25-year-old Miyuki Matsuya was fined $150 for “knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution by another” at the same massage parlour.
Outside court, he told The Courier-Mail he regretted entering the industry as “massage and prostitution” are “mixed up”. “(It’s) hard to separate these two,” he said.
He said the previous owner had signed a contract with the workers prohibiting sexual services. The business was bought off Gumtree, he said.
Xuguang said he assumed if the women did offer such services it was “not my problem.”
He said he realised some staff were offering extra services, but didn’t want to ask for fear he would lose customers. He said he never told staff to offer sexual services.
In another massage parlour raid the same month at The Gap police charged a 32-year-old business owner from Sunnybank Hills with running an unlawful prostitution business.
A 40-year-old woman was also charged.
Meanwhile, another massage parlour owner, East Brisbane Cloud 9 operator Choonhwa “Pam” Lee is defending charges in the Brisbane Magistrate Court of running an illegal prostitution business.