Police in Denpasar arrested on Tuesday a teenage girl they suspect of luring younger girls into the sex trade, a detective said.

The 17-year-old girl, identified only as F. because of her age, was arrested on suspicion of pimping three younger girls, according to the South Denpasar Police’s chief of detectives, Adj. Comr. Made Dayendra.

“She had three victims, all junior high school students,” Dayendra said.

He said the case came to the attention of the police after the parents of one of the girls, 16-year-old I.S., reported that their daughter had been missing since last Thursday.

Police found her in a boarding house on Jalan Raya Sesetan in Denpasar on Monday.

The boarding house reportedly belonged to the family of F. and the suspect also lived there, officers said.

Police said I.S. told them that for the past three days F. had forced her to provide sex to men in a number of hotels.

She told officers that from the Rp 400,000 to Rp 500,000 ($44 to $55) each man paid, F. gave her Rp 200,000 to Rp 300,000 and kept the rest.

Police discovered that F. had also sold two other girls, L.H. and A.I., also both 16, to men for sex in a number of hotels in Denpasar and Kuta.

F. told the police she worked alone and that the other girls had been willing participants.

“I just met them on the street and got them to accept jobs because they wanted the money,” she said.

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