Schoolgirl, 9, sent for rehabilitation as two motorcycle taxi drivers arrested on repeated sexual assault charges

By SURACHAI PIRAKSA 
THE NATION

 

 

BURI RAM: -- A NINE-YEAR-OLD Buri Ram schoolgirl, who allegedly was sexually molested for nearly two years by two motorcycle taxi drivers, was admitted to a rehabilitation programme yesterday.

The two suspects, both in their 50s, had been reportedly hired by the grandmother, with whom the girl was staying, to take her to and from school. 

 

The enrolment of the child in rehabilitation followed the arrest of the two suspects – Akarawat Chotisinthanawat, 54, and Wanna Jatukul, 55 – in Buri Ram’s Nang Rong district on Saturday on charges of sexually molesting a minor under 15. The third-grader’s teacher had filed a police complaint after finding out about the alleged sexual abuse from the girl. 

 

 

The teacher had noticed that the girl was often absent-minded, suffered from depression and fell behind in her class assignments and homework.

 

An initial investigation found that over the past two years, the suspects allegedly lured the girl to temples and public parks and then forced her to watch pornographic movies before molesting her. 

 

While being held in Nang Rong police custody, Wanna reportedly confessed to the crime but Akarawat maintained that he was innocent.

 

Buri Ram Children and Family Home head Yongyuth Wichaitham said a multi-disciplinary team had initially interviewed the schoolgirl and sent her for a physical examination at a hospital. They then sent her temporarily to a home for rehabilitation. 

 

Yongyuth said he would ask the multi-disciplinary team to provide the girl with more assistance, adding that would also explore measures that communities could implement to prevent similar cases of child molestation. He urged parents to keep a close watch on their children and not to entrust them to strangers.

 

According to a 2016 study by the Women and Men Progressive Movement Foundation regarding reported sexual attack cases in Thailand, 51.3 per cent of the cases involved rapes and 13.7 per cent attempted rapes. 

 

Forty per cent of attacks were committed by people familiar to the victim, 12 per cent were the victim’s relatives and 8.7 per cent were people the victims met via social media. About 26 per cent of sexual assault victims were aged between 11 and 15 and 24 per cent were between 16 and 20.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/national/30327059

 

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No punishment is too great for such scum. For sure, the grandmother must take responsibility and be charged with negligence, but these two weasels were entrusted with the care of a child, and in any society a child's safety is paramount.

Can not disagree. Castration is the only answer.

Often these grandmothers are too aged or frail to cope with the demands of raising children

It´s people like this, that is a disgrace to real men.

The article says the girl is 9, so these 2 scumbags have been molesting the poor girl since she was 7, unbelievable.

Put these 2 in a room with 20 mothers for a few minutes, then there would be no need for court/prison, as they would be dead.

i am sure there are a lot of prisoners with children around the same age.

But before that i would like to introduce the blame and shame clamp and lock them in for at least 3 days and nights

Thailand needs to name them publicly, castrate them publicly, sentence them to 40 years of hard labor and put them on a sexual predators list, for life.

 

Even this won't stop all of these emotionally immature, psychologically damaged sub-human life forms from harming children, but it will start to shift the culture and raise awareness to this type of crime.

 

Anything less and the lawmakers are as guilty as the perpetrators.

these worthless predators took advantage of the situation and lured the poor child into their deviate actions. 

Jail them ... no court or anything, straight to the slammer.

2 hours ago, Dexlowe said:

No punishment is too great for such scum. For sure, the grandmother must take responsibility and be charged with negligence, but these two weasels were entrusted with the care of a child, and in any society a child's safety is paramount.

Probably the parents of the girl just dumped her at grandmothers home to raise her. 

 

Can someone explain to me, what this grandmother- talk is about?

 

2 hours ago, NCFC said:

Often these grandmothers are too aged or frail to cope with the demands of raising children

and sadly most of the parents do not raise their children ,they are dumped with the grand mothers .Dont tell me "family comes first" in Thailand.

 

Edited September 19, 20178 yr by lucjoker
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Not a fan of the article headling - "Schoolgirl, 9, sent for rehabilitation.."

 

Would have preferred to read "Schoolgirl, 9, given counselling and support...."

A lot of very sad statistics in the report. They left out one of the most depressing stats, the conviction rate for rape in Thailand!!!

3 hours ago, steven100 said:

these worthless predators took advantage of the situation and lured the poor child into their deviate actions. 

Jail them ... no court or anything, straight to the slammer.

You do realise no court but straight to prison would mean the possible goodbye to the justice system for all and alleged crimes?

1 hour ago, lucjoker said:

and sadly most of the parents do not raise their children ,they are dumped with the grand mothers .Dont tell me "family comes first" in Thailand.

 

Might there be economic reasons, read survival?

I agree, raising by grandparents is not ideal, but raising children by working parents, maybe living on a building project, is not ideal either.

In the west children from the age of 3 months are sent to child care centres and then schools and after school care centres while the mothers work.

https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/11_01_02.pdf

In Thailand traditionally the grandmothers raised the children of their children so that the mothers and fathers could continue working.

Edited September 19, 20178 yr by harrry

"...adding that would also explore measures that communities could implement to prevent similar cases of child molestation...."

 

How about a law with draconian penalties as a deterrent?  Just for starters.

Those men are pedophiles and should be locked away for the rest of their natural lives - never to be released!

No 'wais', no hiding in orange robes and no monies paid as an alternative to incarceration.  

but at least they always used the "taxi meter"

Hey thanks for releasing there names and pictures. Excellent work. These 2 will see what pain really is. I are sure.

Dear PM 

 

You keep promoting the great.Thai justice system haha. Let's wait and see Sir. In my country these 2 scum suckers will be serving life  Bashed daily and probably dead within 3 months. Knifed.

Unfortunately you allow this to reoccur due to your tolerance of scum that destroy children's lives. 

Nearly as bad as Rochdale in the UK. 50 years of child abuse at two schools done with conivance of the Labour party and Liberal party.

4 hours ago, harrry said:

In the west children from the age of 3 months are sent to child care centres and then schools and after school care centres while the mothers work.

https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/docs/11_01_02.pdf

In Thailand traditionally the grandmothers raised the children of their children so that the mothers and fathers could continue working.

Such places were a hunting ground for nonces. See my Rochdale comment.

10 hours ago, NCFC said:

Often these grandmothers are too aged or frail to cope with the demands of raising children

And in most countries it is the mother and father who bring up their own child. But in Thailand it is the culture for the father to flee the scene or be thrown out of the house for drinking/whoring and the mother is left to fend for herself. Far from being a nation of close-knit families as is painted by those who wear rose-coloured glasses and ignore reality, there are a massive number of single parents who have little or no choice but to rely on grandma.

5 hours ago, hansnl said:

Might there be economic reasons, read survival?

I agree, raising by grandparents is not ideal, but raising children by working parents, maybe living on a building project, is not ideal either.

If they can't afford to have children and/or are in the wrong environment then it might be a good idea to show a sense of responsibility and not have any. It is always the innocent child that suffers.

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That poor girl,  what untold damage have they done that will impact her for the rest of her life.  Scum of the first order. 

Unfortunately, no formidable punishment will be handed out...they will wai and apologize and ask for forgiveness and pay the GRANDMOTHER a small fine..and they will walk free...and rest assured this will happen again and again and again...in the meantime, this young girl's life has been permantly destroyed...This country will never never never get this sh*t right because their focus on these matters is out of focus

12 hours ago, Thian said:

Probably the parents of the girl just dumped her at grandmothers home to raise her. 

Get real.
did you notice that many parents in Thailand have two or three jobs between them to make ends meet ? 6.000 B a month, what is not an unusual pay, can only be stretched a little bit.
Also, many grandma's here as well as in Europe or Russia and the USofA, gladly take care of the grandchildren while the parents are out working.
Nothing wrong with that.

What is seriously wrong, is that many men seem to think that they can do what they want with females.
Time for some serious suffragettes to arise, with scissors on their banner. (no inciting of violence intended, that goes without saying)

Edited September 19, 20178 yr by KKr