Thai Police Arrest Finnish Man On Child-sex Charge

[britmaveric]

30 year old finnish man busted for having sex with 11 year old boy

An 11 year old answered the door and officers saw the Finish man lying on a bed with another boy of 15

At 2pm on March 2, a host of police dignitaries took part in the arrest of Miika Petteri Pitkanen, 30 from Finland, for having sex with an underage boy. Senior officers involved in the bust which took place in the man's room were Police Major General Panya Maman, Thai tourist police chief; Police Lieutenant Colonel Wuttichat Luaensucant, chief of Pattaya Tourist Police; Police Lieutenant Colonel Supaset Chaorpchai, deputy superintendent of the Tourist Police division; Police Captain Siam Insuwano, deputy investigations inspector; and Police Captain Yotwat Suwannoi.

The arrest took place in room 005 at the PR Inn on Soi 12. When the police knocked on the door, a boy around 11 years of age answered it. Officers entered the room and saw the Finish man lying on a bed with another boy around 15.

The man and the boys were taken downtown for interrogation.It was learned that Pitkanen, a mechanical engineer who specialises in welding in a Finish shipyard, came to Bangkok two months ago, and after staying three weeks travelled to Pattaya where he stayed a month. He stayed at the PR Inn on Soi 12 and then moved to the Marina Inn on Soi Yen Sabai. During all of this time, he had been living with his fifteen year old lover Eddie.

It was at the Marina Inn he met an eleven year old boy known as 'Nin'. He had been hanging around the hotel with some of his friends soliciting farangs for sex. It's believed the boy sniffed glue and took Yaba.

The trio set off for Bangkok where they stayed another two weeks. During this time the Swede had an accident falling through a roof from the pool lounge of a hotel. He spent some time in Chulaongkorn Hospital, after which he returned with the two boys to Pattaya.

When the eleven year old was interviewed by police, he admitted to fellating the thirty year old man on two separate occasions and masturbating him on three. At his interrogation Pitkanen said the only money he gave the boy was for food – around 200 to 300 baht a day.

Miika Petteri Pitkanen will face charges on three counts: first for having in his custody a boy under fifteen without parental consent, secondly for sexual intent, thirdly for having sex. If convicted he could face 15 years for the offence.

When Pitkanen was locked up, he expressed little anxiety about his own well-being, instead expressed deep concern for his fifteen year old lover Eddie.

-Pattaya City News

[davethailand]

Scumbag, throw him in the monkey house and let them sort him out, then deport him back to his own country and back to jail with full public announcements.

[Pattaya_Fox]

..What a sicko.......These perverts seem to be everywhere.

I can`t believe how brazen this ba*tard is....he even let an 11 year old answer the door.

15 years old lover....what an animal....I hope that he has to serve his time in a Thai jail and not in the comfort of a European one.....

[britmaveric]

Sick and twisted!!! Sorry these are the worst/depraved sort and they need to be perm sorted.

[george]

Thai police arrest Finnish man on child-sex charges

BANGKOK: -- Police in southeastern Thailand arrested a Finnish man on child-sex charges and illegally sheltering children under 15 after he allegedly had sex with two young boys, an official said Thursday.

Miika Tetteri Pitkanen, 30, was arrested late Wednesday when the police raided his hotel room in the resort town of Pattaya and found him with the boys, one of whom was in bed with him, said police Capt. Sompol Naksamphan.

The suspect, whose hometown was not immediately known, told police he had picked up the boys in Bangkok and paid them to have sex with him, he said.

The unidentified boys, 11 and 14 years old, told police the suspect had been paying them each 300 baht (US$7.80; euro6) every time they performed oral sex on him.

They spent the money on glue for inhaling, they said, according to police.

Authorities arrested the man after receiving a complaint from a child rights group that two boys had been picked up from a Bangkok slum community by a Western man suspected of belonging to a pedophile ring.

Pitkanen was detained pending an investigation.

-- AP 2005-03-04

[taxexile]

He had been hanging around the hotel with some of his friends soliciting farangs for sex.

whilst the finnish man should know better and will be deservedly punished , do readers honestly believe that the police are unaware of all the young street kids in this country that sell themselves to farangs for sex.

the police must share some of the blame for the ease with which adults can procure kids for sex , and the police , if they so wished , and if they really wanted to protect and serve the community , could make it much much harder for paedophile tourists by getting these kids off the streets and arresting the thais who pimp them.

they know where they hang out , why dont they do something preventative.

what about the hotel staff , the taxi drivers , the food sellers and all the other people on the street who surely must notice who is hanging around and coming and going.

what is it with the people of this country who see so many terrible things going on and just ignore it ! the people who stand by and let it happen are just as guilty as the sicko farangs pouring the pork to these damaged kids.

sometimes this country is just the pits , a real sh1theap of a place , with few redeeming features to make up for the disgusting shortcomings of thai society and the lowlife falangs that come here to prey on it.

maybe thai society deserves these lowlife falangs.

unfortunately , in this case , its the helpless kids who are suffering.

[jaloochapurr]

It is a certainly good thing that the Thai Police are taking some things seriously. It is due time that people who are involved in such practices are taken into custody. Ionly hope that they truely get what the deserve when they are locked up.

[phillyherb]

It is a certainly good thing that the Thai Police are taking some things seriously. It is due time that people who are involved in such practices are taken into custody. Ionly hope that they truely get what the deserve when they are locked up.

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11 and 14 year old boys. Chop it off. He will only do it again.

[Phil Conners]

he trio set off for Bangkok where they stayed another two weeks. During this time the Swede had

The Swede? I though he was Finnish?

[jonik]

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Edited March 7, 2005 by cdnvic

[jaloochapurr]

Lock him up with some big gay negro men for a couple of years then chop it of.

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that is what would happen to to in the USA. He would not last long. doing such things to little boys.

[ricki]

Thai police arrest Finnish man on child-sex charges

BANGKOK: --  Police in southeastern Thailand arrested a Finnish man on child-sex charges and illegally sheltering children under 15 after he allegedly had sex with two young boys, an official said Thursday.

Miika Tetteri Pitkanen, 30, was arrested late Wednesday when the police raided his hotel room in the resort town of Pattaya and found him with the boys, one of whom was in bed with him, said police Capt. Sompol Naksamphan.

The suspect, whose hometown was not immediately known, told police he had picked up the boys in Bangkok and paid them to have sex with him, he said.

The unidentified boys, 11 and 14 years old, told police the suspect had been paying them each 300 baht (US$7.80; euro6) every time they performed oral sex on him.

They spent the money on glue for inhaling, they said, according to police.

Authorities arrested the man after receiving a complaint from a child rights group that two boys had been picked up from a Bangkok slum community by a Western man suspected of belonging to a pedophile ring.

Pitkanen was detained pending an investigation.

-- AP 2005-03-04

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[jerry921]

Farang murderer? Chop his head off.

Farang molester? Chop his d1ck off.

People on here are so ..... muslim.

Oh, sorry, you did say rape him repeatedly and then chop him, that wouldn't be muslim justice.

I don't like all this machette justice.

I also don't see the point in posting these news items on ThaiVisa. Is it to reinforce the notion that Thailand is a sex-pervert destination? Or to reinforce the ugly-farang stereotype? Or just to give forum members a chance to act out and vent on an easy target? Gee, lets all stand around and beat the xxxxxxx with a stick until we feel better.

I suppose you might claim "pour encourage les autres", but is there any evidence that these types of criminal are ever caused to even hesitate by seeing others punished? On the one hand people assert pedo's are incureable and on the other they want to dissuade them by applying the most barbaric punishments available. How does that add up?

[jerry921]

Lock him up with some big gay negro men for a couple of years then chop it of.

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Biggoted racist vitriolic brain-stem thinking.

[Lars]

What's the use of posting news like this?

Would it be better to "sweep it under the carpet"?

The more all of us hear and know about it, the better it is, making us more aware of these sort of things going on.

[cobra]

I also don't see the point in posting these news items on ThaiVisa.  Is it to reinforce the notion that Thailand is a sex-pervert destination?  Or to reinforce the ugly-farang stereotype?  Or just to give forum members a chance to act out and vent on an easy target? Gee, lets all stand around and beat the xxxxxxx with a stick until we feel better. 

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What's the use of posting news like this?

Would it be better to "sweep it under the carpet"?

The more all of us hear and know about it, the better it is, making us more aware of these sort of things going on.

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You both have valid points, I hate hearing about every murder, suicide, perverted s .., then again I don't want to be ignorant of the current reality,

I guess it's about balance.

[sunnyside33]

Lock him up with some big gay negro men for a couple of years then chop it of.

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Biggoted racist vitriolic brain-stem thinking.

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Thank you Jerry921 for saving the honor of this board.

Edited March 4, 2005 by sunnyside33

[sriracha john]

I'm with Lars. Post them all and allow ME to decide if it's relevant or

note-worthy. An informed public is a knowledgeable public.

[yuyi]

Farang murderer?  Chop his head off.

Farang molester? Chop his d1ck off.

People on here are so ..... muslim.

Oh, sorry, you did say rape him repeatedly and then chop him, that wouldn't be muslim justice.

I don't like all this machette justice.

I also don't see the point in posting these news items on ThaiVisa.  Is it to reinforce the notion that Thailand is a sex-pervert destination?  Or to reinforce the ugly-farang stereotype?  Or just to give forum members a chance to act out and vent on an easy target? Gee, lets all stand around and beat the xxxxxxx with a stick until we feel better. 

I suppose you might claim "pour encourage les autres", but is there any evidence that these types of criminal are ever caused to even hesitate by seeing others punished?  On the one hand people assert pedo's are incureable and on the other they want to dissuade them by applying the most barbaric punishments available.  How does that add up?

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There are so many real good people here, which know immediately that all these reports are true, which do not need a court investigation to check it out, which do not need a judge to decide about guilty or not.

No, for them it's enough if it's in the Thai press, and they throw the stones, and imagine terrible tortures, and they are so happy that there is somebody even worse then them, they can sleep good tonight, they must be good people, now they know, they did read about the real bad people.

Come on you real good people, pedos are always good for some stones, keep on throwing, don't let jerry discourage you!

Do xxxx with him, and then yyyyy, and don't forget zzzzzzzz. Give it to the evil ones! Aaahh, yes, that feels good, I will sleep good tonight.

[siam]

There is so much of this going on all over the world,

Pedophilles net offences in the UK have gone up 307% in the last 2years.

Also 87% of ofenders here in the UK reoffend within a 18 months,

Why don't they do something to these people so they don't have the desire to do it again?

Sentence them counsell them,castrate them and give them medication to stop them having any sexual feelings,Then last but not least electronically tag them,

Now would that help society i think in a way,But at the moment it is getting out of hand

[andy50]

the peado will probably pay the police off ,and go back to his homeland scotfree

[Ningbojoe]

As much as we might like to poke fun at the Thai police from time to time, I think that in this case they have performed a very valuable service for the Thai people.

[siam]

As much as we might like to poke fun at the Thai police from time to time, I think that in this case they have performed a very valuable service for the Thai people.

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All children should be protected

[aaaaaa]

yeah - thai prison would do him good. hopefully he'll be there! and perhaps he may learn on his own arce (literally!) all the pains during long 15 years in there !

[andy50]

pattaya is the sex capital of the world -right? when a paedo gets caught, everyone screams and shouts ,

what does anyone expect ?the whole place is corrupt !theres bound to be child prostitution it goes hand in hand with the general prostitution there.

how can a place with that much corruption not attract paedos?as long as bar girls/katoeys are available there ,there will be a market for kiddie fiddlers too

[britmaveric]

He was in BKK for two weeks as well so.......

What does BG(s) and Katoeys have to do with peders????

Edited March 4, 2005 by britmaveric

[Phil Conners]

as long as bar girls/katoeys are available there ,there will be a market for kiddie fiddlers too

piss off andy50, you're too obvious.

(edited to add the context)

Edited March 4, 2005 by madsere

[Phil Conners]

I dont support kiddy fiddling at all, but come on, to say this is an innocent kid is really stretching the truth .. yaba and glue sniffing? He probably taught the "molester" a thing or two

[andy50]

He was in BKK for two weeks as well so.......

What does BG(s) and Katoeys have to do with peders???? 

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try reading my post again mate

[andy50]

as long as bar girls/katoeys are available there ,there will be a market for kiddie fiddlers too

piss off andy50, you're too obvious.

(edited to add the context)

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&lt;deleted&gt; is "too obvious " Edited March 4, 2005 by andy50