Policeman charged with rape in case of 21 year old university student

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The chief of the Klong 5 police in Pathum Thani said yesterday that the senior sergeant major that a student called "B" claimed raped her in a hotel, has been charged.

 

He was not named but faces rape charges.

 

The story was reported on ASEAN NOW yesterday after the student went to social action group Sai Mai Tong Rort for help.

 

Station chief Pol Col Piyawat said that the lady in question was taken to three places as part of the police's evidence gathering, reported Thai Rath.

 

These were the hotel, a pub where the policeman had arrived when the student was with friends and where he drove her away from in a police vehicle.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

And the house of a friend where he took her after they had been in the hotel.

 

The policeman in question was grilled yesterday but was guarded in his answers.

 

Piyawat said that he had also sent a letter to the provincial police chief asking that a disciplinary committee be set up to investigate.

 

The policeman concerned will have to report to the station as part of conditions.

 

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[ikke1959]

The police is normally there to protect people and enforce laws... but in Thailand they do different things

[Henryford]

Almost as bad as in the UK. The Police are more crooked than the crooks.

[EVENKEEL]

Seems a bit weird he rapes her and then she goes with him to friend's house afterwards.

[norbra]

8 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Seems a bit weird he rapes her and then she goes with him to friend's house afterwards.

It has been reported that a video was in action during the alleged rape and she was threatened that she would be blackmailed if she wasn't cooperative 

[ezzra]

In many places around the world, police put themselves above the law and that somehow

the law does not apply to them and that if they will commit a crime, they bank on the idea that

somehow, they will get out of it Scott free.

[NanLaew]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The policeman concerned will have to report to the station as part of conditions.

So policemen aren't normally required to report to the station?

 

I see.

[ChipButty]

The police have to interrogate the victim first, 

[Bangkok Barry]

4 hours ago, ikke1959 said:

The police is normally there to protect people and enforce laws... but in Thailand they do different things

Thailand does many things back to front. Police committing crimes is only one of them. But Thailand is not alone in that, of course. My native UK had had one policeman jailed for murder and now another is on trial for committing many assaults with impunity for 18 years.

[hotchilli]

While I don't condone rape, the behaviour of the policeman, or actions that followed.

It seems strange that:

She was at a table with friends, he joined the table and started to party with them.

She left the table and friends to get in a car with the policeman, who then drove her to a hotel, where her boyfriend had tracked her.

After the hotel incident she was taken to a friend of the policeman's house?

Not saying she deserved to get raped... but if you don't get in a car with a stranger then strange things never usually happen.

 

 

[Lopchan]

5 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

Seems a bit weird he rapes her and then she goes with him to friend's house afterwards.

Coercion and fear of a person in "power" happens often, but hey, you go right on and try to blame the victim

[Lopchan]

So people here, who supposedly have "lived here for years...and let me tell you..." don't understand the gravity of "a person of influence" coming to your table and forcing themselves into your group / upon you against your wishes.
Having owned a restaurant in a smallish tourist village I have seen this happen when the local Police seargeant and Poo Yai Baan tried to force me to keep the restaurant open and pander to my niece who was a waitress. All of my staff including my wife were too scared to do anything / resist.
I simply started filming and telling them they were being live streamed (they weren't being live streamed because back then I didn't know how to) this made them cr@p themselves and leave (without paying the bill until I went to the police station and talked to the Boss)
The police chief was both understanding and apologetic and assured me there would be no problems in future, which for the next three years we lived there, there were not.

[JimmyJ]

This website and/or the source of its pictures will pixillate the faces of everyone accused of a crime, no matter how heinous the issue, no matter if the person basically confessed.

 

Now we have a woman claiming she was raped by a cop, and the photo outs her. No blurring of her face.

???

[Nicholas Paul KNIGHT]

Ah the  GOOD old protector of the peace and persons strikes again, amazing Thailand , almost as bad as the Catholic Church . 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

So as best as I can tell from the OP news report, despite supposedly being "charged" in the case, the policeman in question doesn't appear to have been actually arrested or taken into custody.

 

If he had been, then presumably, the article wouldn't have included the following comment: "The policeman concerned will have to report to the station as part of conditions."

 

I must say, the Thai police are being extremely accommodating to a charged rape suspect. It's certainly yet another reason to call into question their judgment and (lack of) professionalism.

 

[jacko45k]

On 3/28/2023 at 8:48 AM, ikke1959 said:

The police is normally there to protect people and enforce laws... but in Thailand they do different things

One gets an impression if the police were to swap places with those in the cells, justice would have been better served! 

[kingkenny]

On 3/28/2023 at 4:01 PM, Lopchan said:

Coercion and fear of a person in "power" happens often, but hey, you go right on and try to blame the victim

Alleged victim.