george Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Thai mum sells child bride for B2,000 LOP BURI: -- A mother forced her 13-year-old daughter to marry a 34-year-old man who paid a bride price of 2,000 baht, The Pavena Foundation for Women and Children (Pavena) reported on Friday. The girl told foundation staff that the man had come over for a drink with her parents at her home on Tuesday. He later entered her room and hugged her while she was sleeping. He fled after she screamed for help. The following day, the man came into her room again and forced her to have sex with him. When she told her parents, they asked the man to come over and then offered her as his bride for 2,000 baht. Foundation chairwoman Pavena Hongsakul and the police immediately went to the child's house after receiving complaints from villagers about the incident. The man, his parents, and the victim's parents were brought in for questioning. The man and his relatives protested that he had done nothing wrong. They said that there were other men in the village who had married and lived with girls who were 12 or 13 years old. Ms Pavena said that event though the parents from both sides gave their consent for the marriage, it still violated the law which protects children below the age of 15. The government has full authority to intervene. The child will receive trauma treatment from the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, she added. -- Bangkok Post 2013-01-13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocN Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjjmmi Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Sick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellred Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) Is said man Thai or farang? Can't help but wonder how desperate the parents were. Edited January 13, 2013 by wellred 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kananga Posted January 13, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) Shameful, absolutely shameful. Sterilise the parents and give them 20 years each. Or sell them to a nice caring hi-so Thai chinese family for 10 years hard domestic labour. ~~~it still violated the law which protects children below the age of 15~~~ So children over 15 can be sold by their parents to rapists with impunity? Bravo to the other villagers for raising the alarm and not sweeping it under the carpet. Edited January 13, 2013 by Kananga 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macksview Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 sick bustard, 2000 baht for your daughters body,i know it happens in thailand but it never makes it right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post noitom Posted January 13, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2013 The parents were quick to seize the opportunity for that windfall of 2,000 baht. Sad very sad. This happens a lot in Thailand. Forced sex is not a prerequisite, as many parents are willing to sell their daughters in Thailand. Everything is for sale. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych01 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Disgusting! Thai culture or just the need of money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doggie888888 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Cheaper than a dog of dubious pedigree at Jatujak Market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overherebc Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Disgusting! Thai culture or just the need of money? Change 'need money' to 'greed' and you are repeating yourself 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lancelot Posted January 13, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2013 Is said man Thai or farang? Can't help but wonder how desperate the parents were. If the sin sod was 2,000 baht, I doubt the perp was farang 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soutpeel Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Is said man Thai or farang? Can't help but wonder how desperate the parents were. Seeing as the cash involved was only THB 2000....draw your own conclusion, if it was a farang it would cost a lot more, you only need to look at the sin sot amounts being quoted/questioned by posters on TV... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimay1 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 This is similar to my first gf's aunt.. Her daughter was 13. She sold her to a neighborhood drunk that was 41 years old for 10,000 Baht. The daughter locked herself in her room and refused to go with this guy. Her mother with the help of the groom broke into the room, he carried her to his truck and took her home. Two weeks later he was drunk of course, beat the hell out of her and she ran away to her sister in Bangkok. The mother found out she was with her sister and told her sister to send her back to the drunk because he was demanding his 10,000 Baht back. The 13 year old did not return. The mother lost her 10,000 Baht. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrtoad Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Sick, sick, sick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thai at Heart Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 This was on the TV news 2 or 3 days ago. It was like these people were living on a different planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) Thought these kind of stories were an urban myth. Guess not.... :-( As well I think this story will have a detrimental effect on the value of sin sod for bar girls. " But honey I just saw a sin sod of 2000 baht on Thai Visa. Why does your family want one million baht? " I think Thai at Heart is correct, these people must be from another planet. Who in the hell would sell their daughter????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Edited January 13, 2013 by EyesWideOpen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halion Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 I wonder how the socioligists can explain such acts opposite Buddism and Thai culture. What human, social, cultural or parental values does these people posses. To say that they are simply greedy is so far from the real issues. Those that do this are without doubt the lowest forms of life that ever crawled out of the swamp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pimay1 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Thought these kind of stories were an urban myth. Guess not.... :-( As well I think this story will have a detrimental effect on the value of sin sod for bar girls. " But honey I just saw a sin sod of 2000 baht on Thai Visa. Why does your family want one million baht? " I think Thai at Heart is correct, these people must be from another planet. Who in the hell would sell their daughter????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Up here where I live this is a common pratice my friend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim walker Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Everything is for sale in Thailand and everything has a price in Thailand, even children at 2000 Baht, mindboggling . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sing_Sling Posted January 13, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2013 The child will receive trauma treatment from the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, she added. And the rapist? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beng Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Cheaper than a dog of dubious pedigree at Jatujak Market. Amazing Thailand, isn't it ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych01 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 This all goes back to, what a friend of mine once said and I have believed in it for a long time, "Life is cheap here". This kinda proves it, I suppose, sad really. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humbugged Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Who in the hell would sell their daughter?? Thai parents obviously.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EyesWideOpen Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Who in the hell would sell their daughter?? Thai parents obviously.. Yes you are correct. Guess I should have completed my rhetorical question by adding " that was not on heavy medication or institutionalized "..... :-) I have often heard that if a child is raped in a village here the family will perform their own revenge upon the man. But I guess that will not apply here since she was sold..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Locationthailand Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Life is cheap - none more so than an allegedly raped child without right of protection.This is just another case of human trafficking in actual fact and all people involved should be charged accordingly. The excuses of the 'villagers' that this is quite normal does not exactly fit into Thai law - which itself allows underaged marriage but not consensual sex. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post dcutman Posted January 13, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted January 13, 2013 Thought these kind of stories were an urban myth. Guess not.... :-( As well I think this story will have a detrimental effect on the value of sin sod for bar girls. " But honey I just saw a sin sod of 2000 baht on Thai Visa. Why does your family want one million baht? " I think Thai at Heart is correct, these people must be from another planet. Who in the hell would sell their daughter????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? This type of story is one that no one really likes to talk about, or even think about for that matter. You will notice that those that think the LOS is the best place on earth, will be absent from this thread. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) Thought these kind of stories were an urban myth. Guess not.... :-( As well I think this story will have a detrimental effect on the value of sin sod for bar girls. " But honey I just saw a sin sod of 2000 baht on Thai Visa. Why does your family want one million baht? " I think Thai at Heart is correct, these people must be from another planet. Who in the hell would sell their daughter????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Up here where I live this is a common pratice my friend. There are clearly many points involved in relation to culture, past practice etc., and to me it highlights: - The lack of awareness of many up country Thais about various aspects of human rights, what is considered in most countries, today, to be appropriate, immoral etc. (I'm not saying that Thailand should be a 100% mirror image of so called first world countries.). - The desperate need for a very big reduction in the enormous gap in income and quality of life, but gained through some structured approach which as quickly as possible gives a very large % of all Thai the capabilities and the opportunities to raise their income and quality of life through their own productivity. Edited January 13, 2013 by scorecard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThaiRich Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 Disgusting! Thai culture or just the need of money? It could be a mixture of both, because not so far back in Thailand's history the selling of ones children was a common and accepted practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot1988 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 some people are worse of than animals. the man basically raped their daughter and they are fine with 2000 baht and married off their daughter to a rapist 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psych01 Posted January 13, 2013 Share Posted January 13, 2013 (edited) I have just mentioned this story to my missus, yes she is Thai. She knows about the story and feels it is wrong also but, went on to say "15 years old OK, 13 years old not OK", when I questioned further she said, "it is illegal if under 15 years old". Paying a "sin sot" for someone under 15 years old is illegal basically, even here in Thailand. A sinsot is an "offering" to the mother & father for their daughter's hand in marriage, to prove that you are worthy of and able to take care of her. I believe, there are many cultures that also request there version of it, for example in India; Dowry . This was also the case in the UK during the Elizabethan times. All very old ways of looking at a marriage, in a modern time. The UK are trying to outlaw this part of the Indian culture apparently, hence most go back to India now to marry. Bare in mind, I am not, in any way condoning the practice of any of this. I believe that if, you are of legal age and want to get married then fine, you should not have to pay a sinsot or dowry to get married. Edited January 13, 2013 by Psych01 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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