In a rare display of cooperation, police in Taiwan and China found a woman who was kidnapped by gangsters and was forced to work as a prostitute in Taipei, a Chinese-language newspaper reported yesterday.
Taiwanese police found out about the woman -- identified only by her surname, Qi -- after she used a customer's cell phone to call her father in China and plead for help, the paper reported.
Qi's father informed the police in China, who called their Taipei counterparts and asked them to search for the 29-year-old woman, the newspaper said, quoting unidentified police sources.
Police found Qi and two other women from China on Friday night in a building on Lin Sen North Road, an area known for prostitution, the paper said.
According to the report, Qi gave Qi, from the northeast province of Jilin, was in a disco in the southern city of Zhuhai last month when she lost consciousness after having a drink that was apparently drugged. When she finally woke up, she found herself in a small room in Taipei.
A man she called "Ah-cheng" and a woman called "Mama Lee" forced her to work as a prostitute. She entertained about 20 customers per day and never received payment for her services.
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