Former Miss Thailand Panadda “Boom” Wongphudee and her fiance, Akearin Nilsetthee, have emerged as heroes today after helping police rescue a Thai woman from a brothel in Bahrain.
Boom told Manager Online the 25-year-old victim had reached out to her Instagram account Monday, claiming to be trapped inside the basement of a Bahrain hotel. After fact-checking and determining the story was true, Boom contacted Bahraini police and pointed them to the brothel run by a Thai couple.
According to press accounts, the victim was immediately saved by police and returned to Thailand yesterday. She is now under protection of the Office of Anti-trafficking in Persons Committee.
Boom, a mother of one girl, is now calling for stricter penalties for convicted sex offenders.
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