A woman believed to have trafficked about 30 women to China to work or be sold as brides were caught and arrested on Tuesday evening, July 5, at a Phnom Penh guesthouse, Cambodia with six potential victims, including two minors.
Thoeun Puthea, 28, was in a room at Dara Guesthouse in Prampi Makara district when police stopped her and six young women who were set to be sent to China by way of Vietnam, according to Keo Thea, director of the municipal anti-human trafficking police. Two of the victims were 17 years old, one was 19, and the rest were in their 20s, an official said.