Inside the Thai bars where ‘child entertainers’ are trafficked and put to work

A hug, a hand on her knee, a kiss on the cheek: teenage waitress Pim would not allow the customers to go any further at a karaoke bar in northern Thailand where she was found in a police raid.The 16-year-old was one of four teenage bar staff who were uncovered earlier this month in an anti-trafficking operation in Chiang Mai, a tourist hotspot with a well-established sex trade.The four girls, all under the age of 18, told social workers after the raid on two bars that they were not forced to…