Suspected Japanese pedophile arrested by TICAC force in Bangkok

 

Picture: NewTV

 

A suspected member of a large Japanese pedophile ring was arrested yesterday by officers connected to TICAC - Thai Internet Crimes Against Children.

 

Tomohiro Okawa, 43, was arrested at an address in Sukhumvit Road Soi 31 along with three computers, three phones and a sex toy.

 

Police said they found indecent images of Thai boys.

 

The arrest followed information supplied to the Thai police by Japanese authorities investigating a group of 16 other home room teachers, special camp instructors and undergraduates in Japan over the sexual molestation of 160 boys and the sharing of 100,000 indecent and obscene images using the Line application.

 

Okawa was working in the real estate business in Sukhumvit and had a work visa. TICAC chief Pol Gen Thammasak Witcharaya said he had been in and out of Thailand 136 times. He has been in Thailand since 2013.

 

He offered no evidence and is being held by Thong Lor police on a charge of producing, possessing and sharing indecent and obscene image of children for the purposes of sexual gratification.

 

The charge can result in a 7 year sentence and/or 140,000 baht fine in Thailand reported NewTV.

 

Source: NewTV

 

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12 minutes ago, webfact said:

The charge can result in a 7 year sentence and/or 140,000 baht fine in Thailand reported NewTV.

I hope that is on each count.