Rich resort owner denies human trafficking after 15 year old girl claims he forced her to sleep with customers to repay debt

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Thai Rath reported that Lahansai police in Thailand's north eastern province of Buriram have arrested a wealthy resort owner on four charges including rape and human trafficking. 

 

Earlier Noi, 44, had taken her 15 year old daughter to the police.

 

The M3 girl had claimed that Wirawong or "Hia Winai", 62, had forced her to have sex with customers at his resort.

 

She said that she had borrowed 6,300 baht from Wirawong beacuse her 70 year old grandmother needed emergency surgery and that he told her she must pay it back by sleeping with men.

 

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She refused and he promised to expose and embarrass her so she decided to follow his instructions four times.

 

After this she said she would do it no more but he pressed her to continue saying that "he knows all the cops in the police station" so it was pointless her making a fuss.

 

Despite the threats she told her relatives. 

 

Wirawong was served with an arrest warrant when he happened to go to the police station yesterday. 

 

He denied everything saying he would fight the case in court.

 

The media reported him as saying he was rich, so why did he need to get mixed up in this illegal business. 

 

He was refused bail. 

 

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[worgeordie]

32 minutes ago, webfact said:

The media reported him as saying he was rich, so why did he need to get mixed up in this illegal business. 

 

That's not a excuse that should be taken seriously .

"He was refused bail. " , so he is in lock up  ?.I thought

it said he was rich .......????

regards Worgeordie

[animalmagic]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The media reported him as saying he was rich, so why did he need to get mixed up in this illegal business. 

Perhaps that's how he got rich?

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Wirawong was served with an arrest warrant when he happened to go to the police station yesterday.

Bet he didn't see that coming.

[Jimbo2014]

The sheer evil this takes is unfathomable.  

[ThaiFelix]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

After this she said she would do it no more but he pressed her to continue saying that "he knows all the cops in the police station" so it was pointless her making a fuss.

Its pretty sad when such a statement is very very believable in this country.

[spidermike007]

It is hard to imagine someone with such moral depravity, that they would do this to a 15 year old girl. One can only hope this "rich half man worm" gets years in prison, where he can find out how useful his fortune is, with his new inmate friends, who are likely to make him feel very welcome, when they find out how he got there. 

 

Would then be fun to interview him, and ask him how it felt to be violated many times. 

[Wiggy]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Wirawong was served with an arrest warrant when he happened to go to the police station yesterday. 

I wonder if anything would have happened had he not gone to the police station ???? 

[StayinThailand2much]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The media reported him as saying he was rich, so why did he need to get mixed up in this illegal business. 

Ahem, because this is Thailand, he is rich, so he can?

[IAMHERE]

I hope the guys that used her can be tracked down too.

[spidermike007]

One is forced to wonder where such depravity comes from. Why such a lack of a moral compass? Why such a sense of entitlement? Money alone does not cause this. There has to be an inherent pathology to do this to a young girl. A truly twisted and deranged soul this man is. 

[gerritkaew]

resort in Lahansai,, where??

[Sydebolle]

So much to education and nobody querying the source of money from a 15 year old girl, how sad and how very believable! 

[cncltd1973]

sad. another day another headline. nothing surprises me anymore when I peruse the headlines in the morning

[kingstonkid]

The problem is in the upbringing.  People here have to remember that while Yes Thailand is in the 22 century and has all the trappings of a 22 century country a great deal of the way things are done and the way older people think  is still in the 1800's.

Take a look at the laws that are on the books.

Take a look at who is running the country and I do not mean the politicians.

 

Take a look at the way society treats people in general.

 

It was not that many decades ago that in Canada some schools taught religion and based their whole methodology on a religion belief.   Heck they even made you learn a dead language.

 

 

Edited April 29, 2022 by kingstonkid

[BangkokReady]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

She said that she had borrowed 6,300 baht from Wirawong beacuse her 70 year old grandmother needed emergency surgery and that he told her she must pay it back by sleeping with men.

 

She refused and he promised to expose and embarrass her so she decided to follow his instructions four times.

You have to wonder if he didn't plan this right from the start and offer her the money with this in mind.  She probably looked up to him.

 

So sad that such a system exists that the threat of "exposure and embarrassment" can allow someone to victimise another person in such a way.

 

The headline could have easily been "Wealthy Local Businessman Helps Poor Teen Save Her Sick Grandmother".  ????

[chickenslegs]

51 minutes ago, kingstonkid said:

Thailand is in the 22 century

21st - but I get your meaning.

[kingstonkid]

9 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

You have to wonder if he didn't plan this right from the start and offer her the money with this in mind.  She probably looked up to him.

 

So sad that such a system exists that the threat of "exposure and embarrassment" can allow someone to victimise another person in such a way.

 

The headline could have easily been "Wealthy Local Businessman Helps Poor Teen Save Her Sick Grandmother".  ????

Remember back in English history 

 

If the poor had a problem they went to the lord of the manor  In North America you went to the riches and usually highest thought of.

 

 

As I said before Thailand may be in the 21st  (thanks) century tech wise but the thinking especially in the smaller country areas is still early 1800 and sooner.

 

This is not just a Thai thing though Pakistan and India for a good portion are stillin the same boat.

 

[sammieuk1]

Almost as depraved ..She said that she had borrowed 6,300 baht as her 70 year old grandmother needed emergency surgery???? 

[kiwikeith]

On 4/29/2022 at 3:44 PM, worgeordie said:

That's not a excuse that should be taken seriously .

"He was refused bail. " , so he is in lock up  ?.I thought

it said he was rich .......????

regards Worgeordie

Grandma only 70 mother 62, need money for operation, I heard that one many times when I was a rookie learning about living in LOS

[Excel]

On 4/29/2022 at 4:56 PM, IAMHERE said:

I hope the guys that used her can be tracked down too.

Possibly all from the police station getting freebie sex as the rich guy was friendly with them all, in his words anyway.

[Excel]

5 hours ago, kiwikeith said:

Grandma only 70 mother 62, need money for operation, I heard that one many times when I was a rookie learning about living in LOS

Read it properly. Noi was her Mother aged 44. the 62 year old is the accused.