Sex slave owners, ‘bad people’
A couple who kept five women as sex slaves at a Sydney brothel were described as a “psycho family” by one of their victims, the District Court heard today.
The victim also wrote in her diary that Trevor McIvor known as Papa and his Thai-born wife, Kanokporn Tanuchit, were “bad people” with no conscience or feelings of pity.
“Whatever they do to the girls, I hope they receive their sin in return soon,” she wrote.
McIvor, 60, and Tanuchit, 41, were convicted of keeping five Thai women as slaves at McIvors Fairfield brothel. They were arrested after Australian Federal Police and immigration officials raided the brothel in June 2006.
The court heard the women were subjected to demeaning treatment and forced to work seven days a week to pay off debts of between $35,000 and $45,000. (news)
