Pregnant Aussie Teenager Beaten, Robbed In Phuket Ladyboy Attack

[blows]

Funny how people love to blame the victim. Rape victims also get this abuse.

Yes, but the motive in this case was not rape, for obvious reasons.

It was merely an analogy of how some groups always blame the victim and not the perp. Those are but two situations.

[sausageandmash]

My apologies, just Googled it. Never heard of that expression before. Always referred to it as "the green". Lovely!!

i hate to be cynical but something about this smells - what the ladyboys did was horrendous and reprehensible and by no way am i an advocate of the "going out dressed like that, asking for it" school but 1am, down an alley, 5 months pregnant, in a foreign place, bf back at the room? i'd bet dollars to donuts there's another shoe to fall.

i know of a lad, sends his pregnant gf out to buy the mary-jane as less likelihood of her being stopped - jus' sayin'

anyhoo glad the kid is ok, shame Phuket is trending for all the wrong reasons lately

[Dario]

It is now almost every day that we read such horrible attacks from Phuket and Pattaya about vicious guys who behave like wild animals (never girls) who beat up, rob and murder foreign tourists who bring in much needed cash! Thailand is already in the doldrums economically and financially. Instead of asking foreigners to report every 90 days to immigration, the Thai police should clean up their act and rid this "garbage" from places which are frequented by tourists, especially Phuket and Pattaya. There are other means to control foreigners if immigration feels they need to. It is to hope that foreigners start staying away from such unsafe places like Thailand is.

I for myself feel unsafe when I go cycling upcountry near my new home in the Isaan (due to my diabetics I must go cycling). My wife urges me every day again to stay close by our home, because she knows very well her young compatriots, especially those learning at technical colleges.

Edited February 23, 2012 by Dario

[F1fanatic]

It is now almost every day that we read such horrible attacks from Phuket and Pattaya about vicious guys who behave like wild animals (never girls) who beat up, rob and murder foreign tourists who bring in much needed cash! Thailand is already in the doldrums economically and financially. Instead of asking foreigners to report every 90 days to immigration, the Thai police should clean up their act and rid this "garbage" from places which are frequented by tourists, especially Phuket and Pattaya. There are other means to control foreigners if immigration feels they need to. It is to hope that foreigners start staying away from such unsafe places like Thailand is.

I for myself feel unsafe when I go cycling upcountry near my new home in the Isaan (due to my diabetics I must go cycling). My wife urges me every day again to stay close by our home, because she knows very well her young compatriots, especially those learning at technical colleges.

Obviously I have no idea what it is like where you live but, living on Phuket I have NEVER found myself in trouble.

Yes, I've been 'ripped off', but never been frightened that I might be attacked.

[Dario]

It is now almost every day that we read such horrible attacks from Phuket and Pattaya about vicious guys who behave like wild animals (never girls) who beat up, rob and murder foreign tourists who bring in much needed cash! Thailand is already in the doldrums economically and financially. Instead of asking foreigners to report every 90 days to immigration, the Thai police should clean up their act and rid this "garbage" from places which are frequented by tourists, especially Phuket and Pattaya. There are other means to control foreigners if immigration feels they need to. It is to hope that foreigners start staying away from such unsafe places like Thailand is.

I for myself feel unsafe when I go cycling upcountry near my new home in the Isaan (due to my diabetics I must go cycling). My wife urges me every day again to stay close by our home, because she knows very well her young compatriots, especially those learning at technical colleges.

Obviously I have no idea what it is like where you live but, living on Phuket I have NEVER found myself in trouble.

Yes, I've been 'ripped off', but never been frightened that I might be attacked.

I've been ripped off, too (by my own mistake, admitted). One of my good foreign friends (City Cars Pattaya) was beaten up for no reason recently by a bunch of burglars, ended up paying huge hospital and dental bills.

I have been living here since Christmas 1987 (yes, that's over 25 years), most of the time in Bangkok, then Pattaya and now I live in northern Surin province. The safest place was Bangkok to live. I still have a home in Pattaya, but am busy selling it now.

I'm not complaining about Thailand, otherwise I wouldn't continue to live here. I merely respond to the vicious attacks by youngsters which were not that rampant even 10 years ago here.

[sydneyjed]

glad to hear the baby is alright but....

1. why go out at one in the morning into a dark alley in patong beach?

2. why wasn't the boyfriend with her?

when you're five months pregnant...

Yeah. What right do tourists have to go wandering around at a world famous beach resort as if they were on holiday or something.

Yes disgraceful...and 3 million Aussies watching it on the news tonight I'm sure are thinking the same thing..Phuket is fast sinking in it's own sh.t..I wonder why??

[newsweird]

Very sad indeed, Hope the baby is fine and the mother as well. Perhaps it was sudden craving for ice-cream that brought her out at such an hour. But I learned long ago never trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die.

[2unique]

My apologies, just Googled it. Never heard of that expression before. Always referred to it as "the green". Lovely!!

i hate to be cynical but something about this smells - what the ladyboys did was horrendous and reprehensible and by no way am i an advocate of the "going out dressed like that, asking for it" school but 1am, down an alley, 5 months pregnant, in a foreign place, bf back at the room? i'd bet dollars to donuts there's another shoe to fall.

i know of a lad, sends his pregnant gf out to buy the mary-jane as less likelihood of her being stopped - jus' sayin'

anyhoo glad the kid is ok, shame Phuket is trending for all the wrong reasons lately

tis because I can't spell marijuana.

Spanish Mari-Mary and Juana-Jane

[arrowsdawdle]

So many perverse posts by disfunctional rubes with their nostrils open for pretending same sex isn't.

Bottom line: pregnant young lady beaten by a gang of four men disguised as if anybody would believe they aren't men.

[Moebius87]

Good to hear that her daughter (fetus) is well. She must be going into her second trimester if the can already ascertain gender.

[F1fanatic]

So many perverse posts by disfunctional rubes with their nostrils open for pretending same sex isn't.

Bottom line: pregnant young lady beaten by a gang of four men disguised as if anybody would believe they aren't men.

Except it makes no sense.

Its incredibly rare for anyone to be attacked with no underlying motive.

[Roj]

First it was the taxi drivers, then the tuktuks, then the jet ski mafia, now it appears to be the ladyboys. Perhaps it's only a matter of time before the staff in your hotel assault you for soiling the clean sheets.

The way Phuket`s going you`ll be lucky to get clean sheets in the first place. The TAT call it the Jewel of the Andaman Sea but to those in the know it`s more like a big brown turd floating out there.

[TackyToo]

If my daughter would mention the idea of a holiday on Phuket, I would probably start thinking to give her a good slap already at home!

[metisdead]

Inflammatory posts and replies have removed. Posts speculating on illegal drugs have been removed.

[mstribling]

...and kicking my belly.

What is it with Thais in kicking/hitting females in the stomach. You see it on Thai soap operas all the time.

Never kick them in the money-maker.

[Beetlejuice]

Agree with 2unique above, as bad as this attack was, there seems to be more to this story. Not in any way defending the attack but why at 5 months pregnancy is she out and about like that? Not saying it's her fault but there doesn't seem to be good judgement involved.

I don’t agree.

It appears robbery was the motive and perhaps the girl fought back that provoked the four men to restrain her by using violence.

This doesn’t seem like rocket science to me and whatever the girl was doing out during the late hours is totally irrelevant.

[Ferangled]

Agree with 2unique above, as bad as this attack was, there seems to be more to this story. Not in any way defending the attack but why at 5 months pregnancy is she out and about like that? Not saying it's her fault but there doesn't seem to be good judgement involved.

I don’t agree.

It appears robbery was the motive and perhaps the girl fought back that provoked the four men to restrain her by using violence.

This doesn’t seem like rocket science to me and whatever the girl was doing out during the late hours is totally irrelevant.

Exactly, well said, totally irrelevant not to mention hurtful to any friends and family of hers that might be reading this.

[F1fanatic]

First it was the taxi drivers, then the tuktuks, then the jet ski mafia, now it appears to be the ladyboys. Perhaps it's only a matter of time before the staff in your hotel assault you for soiling the clean sheets.

The way Phuket`s going you`ll be lucky to get clean sheets in the first place. The TAT call it the Jewel of the Andaman Sea but to those in the know it`s more like a big brown turd floating out there.

And you would obviously know - unlike those of us that actually live here.

Yes, Phuket has the same problems as other tourist areas here.

Some of us (Tackytoo) that actually have some knowledge, would prefer to give our friends/relatives advice on the best places to stay on Phuket....

But everyone to their own...

[F1fanatic]

Agree with 2unique above, as bad as this attack was, there seems to be more to this story. Not in any way defending the attack but why at 5 months pregnancy is she out and about like that? Not saying it's her fault but there doesn't seem to be good judgement involved.

I don’t agree.

It appears robbery was the motive and perhaps the girl fought back that provoked the four men to restrain her by using violence.

This doesn’t seem like rocket science to me and whatever the girl was doing out during the late hours is totally irrelevant.

Even by her own story, robbery was not the motive.

[BookMan]

So many perverse posts by disfunctional rubes with their nostrils open for pretending same sex isn't.

Bottom line: pregnant young lady beaten by a gang of four men disguised as if anybody would believe they aren't men.

Except it makes no sense.

Its incredibly rare for anyone to be attacked with no underlying motive.

The underlying motive might simply be they wanted money?

[stevenl]

Agree with 2unique above, as bad as this attack was, there seems to be more to this story. Not in any way defending the attack but why at 5 months pregnancy is she out and about like that? Not saying it's her fault but there doesn't seem to be good judgement involved.

I don’t agree.

It appears robbery was the motive and perhaps the girl fought back that provoked the four men to restrain her by using violence.

This doesn’t seem like rocket science to me and whatever the girl was doing out during the late hours is totally irrelevant.

Where did you learn that robbery was the motive? Agree with you that what she was doing there is irrelevant, except of course it could very well be she was doing unsavoury/illegal things there. And I have no reason to presume that.

Edited February 23, 2012 by stevenl

[TechnikaIII]

So far we have:

1. A claim by one person, the victim of the alleged crime.
   
2. A dubious excuse as to why her boyfirend wasn't with her
   
3. No eye witnesses. and nothing from the hospital .. or do we.
   
4. A pumped up reputation of how bad ladyboys are. (the lynch mob mood easily provoked)
   
5. Missing iPhone, camera and a gold ring. (short of cash maybe?)
   

It all sounds very well scripted.

Question: Who wouldn't immediately feel sympathy for a pregnant girl, versus a mob of ladyboys, those people you love to hate.

Answer: Me

But wow !! What a grabber of a headline!

This ring a bell?

Edited February 23, 2012 by TechnikaIII

[F1fanatic]

So many perverse posts by disfunctional rubes with their nostrils open for pretending same sex isn't.

Bottom line: pregnant young lady beaten by a gang of four men disguised as if anybody would believe they aren't men.

Except it makes no sense.

Its incredibly rare for anyone to be attacked with no underlying motive.

The underlying motive might simply be they wanted money?

Read the article - it doesn't sound like it.

But, I accept, the first news-story is often entirely different to future versions.

[mickyboy]

glad to hear the baby is alright but....

1. why go out at one in the morning into a dark alley in patong beach?

2. why wasn't the boyfriend with her?

when you're five months pregnant...

so agree that place is a total hole in the gound full of the type peeople you dont like to mix with drugs drunks and rubbish every where next time go some where nice like a island and i dont mean cheweng samui

[banglassie]

Sigh, yet another reason to stay away from Phuket...

I had a feeling I ould hate the place, then all my friends nagged on me trying to tell me how nice it was.. Now I've been there one time, and it's the only place in the kingdom I trully disliked together with Pattaya...I better stay home on Ladprao than go there again.. Crappy, cheaters, overpriced and overrated...

[mikebike]

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand you do not do on holiday what you wouldn't do at home. Would you advise a preg teeen to walk an alley in a booze driven red light district in Sidney, Moscow, London, Paris, LA, Toronto etc... at 1am? Would you advise it in Bali, Rio, Mo Bay, Costa Brava? Get your heads outta the sand and realise it is not Phuket but the world we live in.

My daughter came to visit Thailand a couple of years ago at age 16 and had a safe enriching experience. Spent most of her time away from dad hanging with local (Thai) teens and rastas who always made sure she got home safe by escorting her home. She also aways carried a phone and knew that dad was a speed dial away, as did her friends.

Very sorry for the girl in this story but in my experience you what you get out of any situation is directly related to what you bring into that situation.

[2unique]

Every person has basic human rights however the sad thing is that anyone person or group can deny us those rights by acts of violence.The same way i research the quality of the tap water is the same way I research the locale - even if i read it safe to stroll around drunk flashing money at the natives while leaving my laptop in the coffee shop, I wouldn't do it - I'm as lazy as the next man but I would not want my missus out walking back to our hotel at 1am - I'd ask her to call for collection, have pre-arranged to meet or like I do in Bangkok call and ask what time you coming home, its late, is the car full and do you have your taser?

If there were so many people walking past - why was she targeted, surely not just for approaching them (unless they were on the crystal meth mentioned earlier)?

Will it affect Phuket tourism? I remember friends still wanting to go partying in Jamaica despite the horror stories so I doubt it

[antipodesant]

glad to hear the baby is alright but....

1. why go out at one in the morning into a dark alley in patong beach?

2. why wasn't the boyfriend with her?

when you're five months pregnant...

She made a mistake, that is for certain. but no need to rub it in. The ones here at fault are the alleged ladyboy attackers.

Sure she made a mistake but the mistake was not going out alone late at night, her mistake was to go to that shithole called Phuket

Exactly, they should rename it Tombstone

And they worry about negative publicity and it's a affects on tourism. THEY SHOULD WORRY BECAUSE THERE IS NO POSITIVE PUBLICITY COMING OUT

[CantSpell]

I was shouting at the 5 month pregnant wife for going up the spiral stairs in the house to clean the empty room up there....

He let the 5 months pregnant girlfriend go alone in the dark Soi of Bangla Road....

Vacation is not an excuse for stupidity...

[harleyclarkey]

glad to hear the baby is alright but....

1. why go out at one in the morning into a dark alley in patong beach?

2. why wasn't the boyfriend with her?

when you're five months pregnant...

This viscious attack is SOLELY the responsibility of these cowardly thugs. Four mixed up brutes againt a pregnant girl...nice one "lads"(?). It had nothing at all to do with this unfortunate girl. Pleae...do not lay any blame on the victim.

She was relaxed, probably off guard, and was on holidays in what is advertised all over the world as friendly, smiling welcoming Thailand. Where "warmth and hospitality are renowned".When will goverments ever get around to issuing a travel warning for Phuket? Nothing but bad news ever comes out of this failed island.

Edited February 23, 2012 by harleyclarkey