Unbelievable! Not 1, but 2 more pedophile arrests. Guess where!

[Gaybutton]

My God! Just how many gay pedophiles are out there in Pattaya?!?!?!?! Aren't they ever going to learn? One of these guys is accused of actually having 8 boys delivered to him, just like having a few pizzas delivered. And they think they can get away with this. What's wrong with these people?

 

 

Both stories appear in THE NATION:

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Briton Arrested for Allegedly Buying Sex from 11-year-old Boy

 

Pattaya- A British tourist has been arrested for allegedly buying sex service from a 11-year-old boy, police said.

 

Police said Dee Christopher, 41, was arrested at his rented house in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district at 7 pm Sunday.

 

Police found the boy with him. The boy told police that Christopher picked him up while he was walking in a soi and he was given Bt500 in exchange for the sex.

 

The Nation

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Briton Arrested for Allegedly Buying Sex from 8 Underage Teenagers

 

Pattaya - Police arrested a British tourist after found him inside his rented luxurious mansion with eight teenage boys ranging from 14 to 18 years old.

 

Michael Terrance, 58, was arrested at 7:30 pm at the mansion in Chon Buri's Bang Lamug district on Saturday.

 

Police said he had already had sex with one of the boys while the seven others were waiting for him in the living room when police raided the house.

 

The eight boys told police that they were delivered to Terrance by Chalee Kengthanyakorn, 45 who works at a pub in Bangkok. They said Terrance gave Chalee Bt2,000 for each of them but Chalee deducted Bt1,000 each.

 

Terrance declined to talk to police, saying he would consult his lawyer first.

 

The Nation

[Guest laurence]

On other forums, posters have suggested these arrests were some type of sting operation by the police. Perhaps a likely scenario.

[Guest xiandarkthorne]

Yes, but if they didn't go after such young-looking guys in the first place, they wouldn't be in trouble would they?

[Gaybutton]

On other forums, posters have suggested these arrests were some type of sting operation by the police. Perhaps a likely scenario.

 

It's possible, of course, but I doubt it. Thais are very protective of children. Somehow I can't envision police officers approaching parents and saying, "Pardon me, but we have a farang we suspect of being a pedophile. Would you mind if we borrow your eleven year old boy, teach him what he needs to do, and allow him to get naked and start having sex with this farang so we can catch the guy in the act?"

 

Many members of the Thai police are corrupt when it comes to money, but I can't picture them using children in this manner, even if the children are street urchins. I believe it is much more likely they know children who are involved in this, possibly mafia controlled. They go after the farang pedophiles. When was the last time you heard about a Thai pedophile being arrested? Perhaps, as in Iran, they don't exist . . .

 

I think it's selective enforcement and they don't put much effort into going after the Thai pedophiles or the Thai "Mr. Bigs" who traffic the children. That's my opinion. Whether my opinion is also a fact will probably never be known.

 

No matter what, obviously farang are primary targets. It would take a lot more than people's personal opinions to convince me the police intentionally seek out and use children in that manner. Catching farang pedophiles is big news. Catching Thai pedophiles seems to be quite ho-hum.

 

In any case, in my opinion foreigners who come to Thailand to have sex with children are not only reprehensible and causing those of us who are not pedophiles to share their terrible reputation, but they are also complete idiots for risking everything for the purpose of fulfilling whatever it is they need to fulfill. Where they're going they'll likely have plenty of sex, but it won't be with children. It will probably consist mainly of midnight conjugal visits from some big 'Mongos' they don't want one from.

[Gaybutton]

The PATTAYA DAILY NEWS has now published its version of events, including photos.

 

See: http://www.pattayadailynews.com/shownews.p...NEWS=0000006033

 

 

[Guest laurence]

It's possible, of course, but I doubt it. Thais are very protective of children.

 

Not really sure how protective they are of their children. How often do we see young boys riding three or four on a motorbike with no helmets and no license? Also families with infants propped up holding the handle bars of the motorbike. Do the police do anything?

 

But these farang are not being caught by accident or chance. Like GB says, selective enforcement or maybe another unscrupulous Thai looking for easy money? Let the buyer beware.

[Guest luvthai]

Sometime ago there was suppose to be a list of known pedophiles that was suppose to be published. I wonder if they are now acting on that list and targeting men from that list. The latest arrest doesn.t make sense unless they already had these men under survelience.

[fedssocr]

well, if he was importing boys for what sounds like a very long time it probably wasn't so hard to find him. According to the article he was rotating new boys in and old boys out every week! Of course the Nation article is a bit misleading. Only two of the boys were under 15. Three of them were 19. The headline makes it sound like he had 8 little boys lined up and ready to go.

 

This guy clearly has a lot of money to bankroll this lifestyle. I assume the BIB will take their cut and his life will go on.

[Gaybutton]

This guy clearly has a lot of money to bankroll this lifestyle. I assume the BIB will take their cut and his life will go on.

 

About ten years ago I would have made the same assumption. Now I'm not so sure. Much has changed over the years and I don't think it's so easy, if one has enough money, to buy one's way out of this kind of trouble anymore.

 

What I do know is that in certain criminal matters, it is legally possible in Thailand to reach a financial settlement with the victim and/or the victim's family and end the matter that way. What I don't know is whether that applies in pedophile cases.

 

I think it's been about six or seven months, or so, since two farangs who live in Pattaya were caught in Khorat engaging in under-age sex. According to the news articles these two would make visits to Khorat on a regular basis for that purpose. Shortly after the major publicity died down one of them started showing up at the beach almost daily. I have no idea whether he bought his way out of trouble, was released on bail, or what. I haven't seen him lately. I haven't seen him for about two or three months. I have no idea whether he simply stopped coming to the beach, was able to leave Thailand, is in jail, was deported, was prosecuted in his home country, bought his way out of it, or what ended up happening to him. These cases are reported at the time of arrest, but I never see any follow-up publicity regarding the final outcome.