A FORMER senator who is now a well-known politician showed up at Ban Mo police station in Saraburi late last night to surrender over charges of buying sex services from an underage girl but denied the accusation, Matichon newspaper said Thursday afternoon (Sep. 14).

 

Pol. Maj. Gen. Wichit Bunchinwuthikul, Saraburi provincial police chief, said last Monday (Sep. 11)  he received a report that a 15-year-old girl, 10th grade student, Suay (pseudonym), had been brought to this police station by her Thai father, Mr. A (pseudonym), 37, and her homeroom teacher to prosecute her Myanmar national real mother, Ms. Ma Miao, 37, who worked as a housekeeper at a resort in this province on the charges of forcing her into prostitution.

 

Pol. Maj. Gen. Wichit  said Mr. Bunsong Kerdlam, 58, a former senator and MP candidate for a political party, surrendered at 9 p.m. last night. He denied the charges and used the right of having surrendered to post bail and be temporarily released.

 

Although Suay had identified six men, arrest warrant could only be issued for five of them with the other four, who were previously rounded up, being identified as Mr. Suriya (surname withheld), a hospital worker in this district;  Mr. Phonchai (surname withheld), a contractor in Lopburi; Mr. Decha (surname withheld), 62, former director of National Office of Buddhism in Saraburi and retired civil servant; and Mr. Prasong (surname withheld), 39, a salesman from Nakhon Pathom.

 

by TNR Staff

TOP: Graphic image on prostitution by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

 

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Update: Ex-Senator Charged With Sexually Abusing 15-Year-Old Thai/Myanmar Girl
By Thai Newsroom Reporters

 

The motel in Saraburi where the forced prostitution of an underaged Thai/Myanmar girl took place. Photo: Matichon

 

A FORMER SENATOR of Saraburi has been charged for sexually abusing a 15-year-old girl who had been allegedly forced by her own mother into the flesh trade, police said yesterday (Sep.14).

 

The former senator, namely Boonsong Kerdlum, 58, who had unsuccessfully contested last May’s election for MP of Saraburi under the Pheu Thai tickets, was among five men being charged with perpetrating sexual abuses of the underaged Thai/Myanmar girl at a motel in Baan Mor district of the central province, the police said.

 

Boonsong, a native of Baan Mor district, turned himself in, categorically denied the sexual abuse charge and was released under bail whilst the police have launched investigation into the forced prostitution.

 

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The criminals of the Government.. Good they are caught.. 

21 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

The criminals of the Government.. Good they are caught.. 

They have not been convicted yet - just the bartering stage begun 

Just a former Senator Bastardator.

1 hour ago, ikke1959 said:

The criminals of the Government.. Good they are caught.. 

Named, shamed, and allowed to walk free.

He must've upset somebody.

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Named, shamed, and allowed to walk free.

Right across the border to his nice house in Myanmar.