Model agency boss faces arrest for allegedly pimping minors after viral face-slapping video posted online

By KORNKAMOL AKSORNDECH 
THE NATION

 

 

BANGKOK: -- NINEW MODELING boss and former magician Kerdmai Ruayjingna and others will soon face arrest for alleged human-trafficking offences, Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTD) chief Pol Maj-General Kornchai Klayklueng said yesterday.

 

Kornchai said police were gathering evidence to apply for court-issued summonses or arrest warrants for Kerdmai and others on charges of human trafficking and profiting from sex work performed by people under 18.

 

Police will also investigate the allegation that the Bangkok-based modelling agency had employees under 17 use other people’s ID cards to perform as dancers at night entertainment venues that by law bar entry to minors. He said police would also check if the venues had knowledge of the alleged faked identities.

 

The 44-year-old Kerdmai, previously known as Kheetakan Kerdpaiboon, and his former “coyote dancer” employee and NiNew Modeling manager, Panwarot Kuabkoom, 34, were at the centre of a scandal after video clips of two female dancers being slapped in the face went viral.

 

Panwarot and other employees reportedly queued up to slap the young women as punishment for unclear breaches of the modelling house’s rule. The clips led to online criticism and an initial police inquiry into what went on. 

 

It became a formal police case when four alleged victims, all aged 17, lodged police complaints with the AHTD on Monday, accusing Kerdmai of forcing them to provide sex services to venue customers. Kerdmai denied the accusations in a television interview aired on Monday night. 

 

The young women also claimed that Kerdmai had demanded to see them naked during job interviews and that he coerced some of the dancers to have sex with him.

 

Kerdmai told the television interviewer that he had to check dancers’ bodies for tattoos and blemishes to meet the requirements of the venue’s customers.

 

The married man with five children also admitted on air that he had had consensual sexual relationships with two employees, but had broken up with them. 

 

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10 minutes ago, webfact said:

 

The 44-year-old Kerdmai, previously known as Kheetakan Kerdpaiboon, and his former “coyote dancer” employee and NiNew Modeling manager, Panwarot Kuabkoom, 34, were at the centre of a scandal after video clips of two female dancers being slapped in the face went viral.

 

Better enjoy this social media feeding frenzy while it lasts; I suspect it won't be long before the baddies become more media savvy, and these publicised incidents will become a lot rarer.

Being a boos of a modeling agency is a wet dream of many a men, right up

there with being filthy rich, but from there to deprive and demean the staff

working for you and pimping them out, this is completly unacceptable and

wrong....

Good.  Sum num nah!!

Can I just check inside there  with this tool I have for tattoos. 

 

 

These thai girls are lying. How can you tell? Their lips are moving.

He'll offer money and girls, and get a small fine. 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The married man with five children also admitted on air that he had had consensual sexual relationships with two employees, but had broken up with them. 

He had better kept his mouth shut.
 

7 hours ago, webfact said:

The married man with five children also admitted on air that he had had consensual sexual relationships with two employees, but had broken up with them. 

how old were the employees?

3 hours ago, ovi1kanobi said:

These thai girls are lying. How can you tell? Their lips are moving.

 

And you think the boss and his mamesan aren't?

Unfortunately nothing new under the (Thai) sun her. This kind of abuse is all over the Thai entertainment industry, from music, film/soap, to modelling.

2 hours ago, Travel2003 said:

Unfortunately nothing new under the (Thai) sun her. This kind of abuse is all over the Thai entertainment industry, from music, film/soap, to modelling.

And some.................lol