"Lao workers 'caged' in slave case", 23 Aug 2015

A bank manager has been charged after 12 Lao workers — some as young as 14 — were found enslaved and kept in cages on a farm outside Bangkok. The workers, aged between 14 and 25 years old, were found sleeping in small spaces framed by metal bars that resembled “animal cages”, according to a team of police and soldiers who raided the pig and chicken farm in Nakhon Pathom's Muang district...Investigators need more time to determine whether Mr Chaidet’s acts constitute human trafficking and whether a larger network was involved. Pol Lt Col Phruet described the conditions the Lao workers were caged in as shocking. He added he never expected to see such conditions of “slavery” in Thailand.