The parents and guardians of five boys, aged 13-16, who are accused of fatally assaulting a mentally-challenged woman on January 10th in Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province, were asked by district police to come in for questioning today.

 

Pol Lt-Gen Somprasong Yentuam, commissioner of the Region 2 Provincial Police Bureau, officials from the provincial social development office and the Department of the Protection of Rights and Liberties were present during the questioning.

 

The five boys have been held in police custody since CCTV footage emerged, showing one of them taunting the victim in front of a convenience store on the night of January 10th. The footage also shows the boys forcing her onto one of their motorcycles. The victim was later found dead and is believed to have been beaten to death beside a pond near a school in the district.

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-01-18

 

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13 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The parents and guardians of five boys, aged 13-16, who are accused of fatally assaulting a mentally-challenged woman on January 10th in Aranyaprathet district of Sa Kaeo province, were asked by district police to come in for questioning today.

Amazing...

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

Amazing...

Why?

imagine they also raped the woman and did not make that public... 

The thing that gets me about this is that there is no mention of the fact that one of the boys is the son of a local cop, and that the local cops tried to frame the woman's husband, who was also mentally challenged, to the extent that they got him to re-enact their version of events. When the CCTV footage, which the local police ignored, was handed to the media that's when the police hierarchy from BKK got involved. Will be interesting to see what happens to the local cops for trying to frame the husband.

2 hours ago, TigerandDog said:

The thing that gets me about this is that there is no mention of the fact that one of the boys is the son of a local cop, and that the local cops tried to frame the woman's husband, who was also mentally challenged, to the extent that they got him to re-enact their version of events. When the CCTV footage, which the local police ignored, was handed to the media that's when the police hierarchy from BKK got involved. Will be interesting to see what happens to the local cops for trying to frame the husband.

 

Just more corrupt behaviour from Thailand's largest criminal organisation.

 

It starts to seem as if Thai kids are totally out of control. Hardly a day goes by without reports of fighting, bomb-throwing, assaults, firing guns. Maybe TAT can spin it as making the country more exciting for visitors. "Come to the wonderful family friendly resort of Pattaya and witness for yourself gang fights on the pristine beach', for example.

3 hours ago, TigerandDog said:

The thing that gets me about this is that there is no mention of the fact that one of the boys is the son of a local cop, and that the local cops tried to frame the woman's husband, who was also mentally challenged, to the extent that they got him to re-enact their version of events. When the CCTV footage, which the local police ignored, was handed to the media that's when the police hierarchy from BKK got involved. Will be interesting to see what happens to the local cops for trying to frame the husband.

I read somewhere that two of them were sons of coppers.

10 hours ago, TigerandDog said:

The thing that gets me about this is that there is no mention of the fact that one of the boys is the son of a local cop, and that the local cops tried to frame the woman's husband, who was also mentally challenged, to the extent that they got him to re-enact their version of events. When the CCTV footage, which the local police ignored, was handed to the media that's when the police hierarchy from BKK got involved. Will be interesting to see what happens to the local cops for trying to frame the husband.

No, you've got it all wrong mate, they weren't trying to frame the husband, they were just playing a joke on him!

 

Seriously, this is the response from the police, as reported in Thaiger, when asked about the nine hours of torture and abuse they inflicted on the husband :-

 

"They were just playing a prank on Panya. They confessed it and said they did not do it seriously."

 

https://thethaiger.com/news/national/prosthetic-police-probe-thai-man-accuses-hopalong-cop-of-wifes-murder-confession-coercion

 

What a sense of humour those boys in brown have.

But in all truthfulnesses.  Here in the ‘good ole USA’ we have teen Agee’s doing much the same kind of stuff.  The news is full of it daily.  So it isn’t just in Thailand.  But the part about the Cop Parents (The boys in Brown) trying to cover it up is strongly a Thai thing.  

On 1/19/2024 at 8:21 AM, RobU said:

Why?

They were ''asked to come in'' not arrested and sentenced to 1st degree murder.

8 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

They were ''asked to come in'' not arrested and sentenced to 1st degree murder.

But that is exactly what the article says.  No police force arrests the parents for the sins of the child.