TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese police arrested a woman for selling her 16-year-old daughter to a geisha house so she could get money to play pachinko, police said on Friday. Keiko Ueno, 46, took her daughter to a geisha house in northwest Japan and borrowed one million yen ($6,800) from them in exchange for having her daughter work there as a geisha, a spokesman for the Shizuoka prefectural police said. Ueno, who collaborated with her sister and her elder daughter in abandoning the 16-year-old girl, told police they wanted to use the money to play pachinko, Japan‘s popular pinball game. Police arrested Ueno‘s 56-year old sister and 27-year-old daughter as well for violating the Child Welfare Law. „I‘d understand if it was soon after the war, but you never hear such stories these days. And imagine, it was the girl‘s relatives,“ the police spokesman said. The girl escaped the geisha house several days later and sought police help after Ueno physically abused her for running away from the geisha house, according to the spokesman. The daughter was abandoned at an orphanage soon after birth and met her mother for the first time in January.