Scouse123

Good job you aren't running the judiciary, then.

You interested in requesting visiting rights?

The kid was Russian according to reports. 16/17 is not a child.

To the posters saying they would like to hear his side of the coin, fair enough. However, he seems to have also done this behaviour state side as well with both a Filipina and a Chinese woman. It is alleged there are more witnesses coming forward that he has done this type of behaviour in SE Asia. It seems a pattern is forming, and he appears to be some kind of sociopath and then taking it a step further using violence in at least a couple of cases. This has all the hallmarks of a very dangerous individual. He then attempts to blame it on PTSD. Well, if he actually did ever serve in the Armed Forces, he should be getting the necessary help in his own country, not globe-trotting, terrorizing and stalking women. To then send sexual activity videos of his victims to their friends, work colleagues and families is vile behaviour, and is indefensible. This guy has major psychological problems.

16/17-year-olds can travel without parents. From the airlines website:- Some airlines permit this for kids as young as 12. When a child has reached this minimum age for traveling alone without unaccompanied-minor procedures, the airline does not require evidence of parental permission to travel alone. If the child has a passport, he or she can even travel internationally.

So now you are taking the initiative and attacking other Western posters, just in case, heaven forbid, they might put a post up that could be considered American bashing? Not me, I am a Brit, but I identify as a Nigerian Prince, you might have seen emails from me. Actually, I am Ex Military but only qualified as a Leading Weapons Engineering mechanic (posh for electrician) I quit when they told me I had no chance of the Admirals job. Harsh, but true. And it seems quite a few putting it out in the hope of the American dream. It doesn't however, excuse this piece of human excrement for his lowlife and disgusting behaviour. He really is the bottom of the barrel. However, filthy behaviour has no borders or nationalities nor religions. This makes the Brits vs South Africans look like a Sunday school misunderstanding.

Only us Brits!

A Russian leaving with a Russian minor? 16/17?, I doubt they would look twice, let alone want to get involved.

Up here as well, where I live.

No shortage of kids up here in the sticks! How useful this lot is in the workforce or for a labour shortage, however, is debatable.

It looks like the bloody stock exchange, if it wasn't for the tables in the foreground, (unless that's a generic photo and there's a damn sight more than 1,000 people in that photo.

I agree, it would be very strange but not unheard of to take a random 16/17-year-old to the airport. Poor journalism with scant details, and they mention he was stopped at arrivals when one would have thought departures, so does that have any relevance? OK, I accept it wouldn't take you long to get from arrivals to departures.

I find it an obscure law in Thailand where they accuse somebody of taking away somebody between 15-18 even with parental permission. I see girls having kids and living with very young boyfriends up in Isaarn at not more than 14 years old.

I would think there is definitely a family/parental connection to this story by the Russian man.

In a case such as this one, it certainly would be no business of the Thai police or immigration.

And what has a working father done wrong?, he has stood up to his parental responsibilities, gone to work and sent 500 baht per day to look after his son. Sounds like a Dad doing his best to me. It is the adoptive parents. Bruises and bite marks? It can only be child abuse.

Sad at 30 years old. RIP.

I was thinking just the same. I thought, we are just lacking the good old 'found in the back of my taxi story' and up pops this one.

If the partner can be bothered to work, as many don't. Agreed, but it's the going rate. I remember my days of having the hotel in Pattaya, and we looked after our staff far better than Thai owned places. We paid Christmas and New year's bonuses, annual leave and correct monthly days off, advances of wages when they were short, paid the government their dues in required taxes and social security (it was checked with foreign owned establishments but not so much with Thai owned ones). However, there would still be foreigners asking staff members their salary and then reacting with scorn and sarcasm, then winding the staff up by stating slave labour by the management. We paid over the going rate and staff seldom left us. There was a happy work environment. It was these same foreigners moaning and up in arms and searching high and low around Pattaya for better deals, when we wanted to increase room rates by 50 baht or 100 baht a night.

It's 3.50am, and you are walking around with 300,000 baht necklace in Pattaya. What could possibly go wrong?

The teacher obviously lost control and has now realised he went way too far and doesn't fancy a conviction, loss of job and handing over compensation. It will happen again, maybe to a different student, if not addressed quickly and firmly. The teacher needs punishing and bringing to heel. It is illegal to hit a kid in Thai schools and was outlawed years ago. Yes, kids can be a pain in the ass, but that was his chosen profession and vocation. He had many options, sending to headmaster, sending the kid out of class, sending the offending kid home. But not to beat him in front of the whole class, causing the boy to hide under a table., and then he has cuts and bruises to head, neck and body. That's way beyond chastisement.

Maybe the Perpetrator is a friend of the reporter?

Passed away is only a euphemism for died. There was no disrespect. He was a very positive contributor to the board on visa issues

Your posts are weird.

He died.