Five monks arrested for pedophilia in Chiang Mai

[Jonathan Fairfield]

Five monks arrested for pedophilia in Chiang Mai

CHIANG MAI:-- It came to a big surprise when 5 monks from 5 temples in Chiang Mai and Lam Phoon province were arrested on charges of alleged child of sexual molestation.

Further investigation reported that the victims are provided by Mr. Tawatchai Moonpanun, who has been previously arrested for accusation of human trafficking.

He was also a monk in one of the temple in Chiang Mai.

Source: Talay Hua Hin

[uptheos]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

[marioc]

And now: NO MERCY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[marko kok prong]

Not a good day for the monks,these perv's and in another story the monk recording ladies on the toilet.

[Costas2008]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

[uptheos]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

Can't disagree, I just said to whom did it come as a surprise to?

Certainly not me.

[poohy]

Its not a good day for them Monks today is it!

[lawrence1366]

Not a good day for the monks,these perv's and in another story the monk recording ladies on the toilet.

How come suddenly there's a big drive to clean up the gambling den and the monasteries, after all these years?

[JeremyBowskill]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

I'm happy to generalize, my generalization is I would like to see all pedo's executed!

[daveAustin]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

Well it is specific to Thailand as it happened in Thailand, we're in Thailand and this is a Thai forum! Nothing irks me more on this site than the type of comment above... pukeworthy almost.

[KED]

My focus is on the young children who were victims. What support are they and their families given?

[davehowden]

Too much Monkey business!

[Costas2008]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

I'm happy to generalize, my generalization is I would like to see all pedo's executed!

I agree with you about the paedofiles, but my comment referred to the monks and priests all over the world.

[Chao Lao Beach]

Most Thais put their head under the pillow when creaps screw 12yo kids. Sicko Culture.

[Costas2008]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

Well it is specific to Thailand as it happened in Thailand, we're in Thailand and this is a Thai forum! Nothing irks me more on this site than the type of comment above... pukeworthy almost.

I think you have a serious problem.

What is pukeworthy about my comment?

That I said that there are good priests and bad priests around the world?

Yes, this is a Thai forum, but we all live in a wider world and we are aware of what is happening all over.

Just wonder if it is my comment or a personal attack on me?

[JeremyBowskill]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

I'm happy to generalize, my generalization is I would like to see all pedo's executed!

I agree with you about the paedofiles, but my comment referred to the monks and priests all over the world.

Yeah I know, terrible thing to keep reading about.

[ginjag]

Not a good day for the monks,these perv's and in another story the monk recording ladies on the toilet.

How come suddenly there's a big drive to clean up the gambling den and the monasteries, after all these years?

Your mother didn't say that every spring, all hell was let loose at our family home when mam got out the scrubbing brushes, buckets and a bar of soap.

Dad had to be out, us kids also. Mam was in no mood at spring clean time.

It's just a pity this didn't come earlier. Better late than never.

Did you enjoy the days when certain people could get away with anything ????

[FATOZ]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

I'm happy to generalize, my generalization is I would like to see all pedo's executed!

+1 as long as they are executed slowly and painfully

[1plumber]

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It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.
We can never generalize.
Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

Well it is specific to Thailand as it happened in Thailand, we're in Thailand and this is a Thai forum! Nothing irks me more on this site than the type of comment above... pukeworthy almost.

Roger that! Some people here are so blindly PC. Let's not hurt anyones feelings. We all cross the finish line at the same time holding hands and waving flags. EFF THAT!

[ginjag]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

I'm happy to generalize, my generalization is I would like to see all pedo's executed!

People have to be dealt with according to the offence.---a monk rubbing a boys knee is not on, but should not be executed. Punishment to fit the crime.

Also there would not be enough executioners here in Thailand if this did apply--we all know what goes on in the family home, brothers- dads-uncles.

Anyone else you would want to see executed -----all rapes ??? where are you drawing your line ??? to let live and who has to die ???

[Costas2008]

Most Thais put their head under the pillow when creaps screw 12yo kids. Sicko Culture.

Where are you from Chao Lao Beach?

I suggest you look also at your own people and culture, before you call Thai culture "Sicko"

[Gunna]

Most Thais put their head under the pillow when creaps screw 12yo kids. Sicko Culture.

Where are you from Chao Lao Beach?

I suggest you look also at your own people and culture, before you call Thai culture "Sicko"

I usually agree with costas, but not with this comment

Priests, Catholic ones in particular, were almost never prosecuted through the Church, their superiors just moved kiddie fiddlers to a new position ( not a new Karma sutra one as they were mostly with boys ) because many of them were also involved. It appears in Thailand the Abbots ignored their monks prediliction for young boys and girls for the same reason.

Celibacy and religion don't make good bedfellows.

[Thailand]

Most Thais put their head under the pillow when creaps screw 12yo kids. Sicko Culture.

Where are you from Chao Lao Beach?

I suggest you look also at your own people and culture, before you call Thai culture "Sicko"

In India 2 young girls were just gang banged and hung from trees. It' s a sick world that seems to be seeing little progress over the years, and we humans are supposed to be the smartest of the bunch?

[Costas2008]

Most Thais put their head under the pillow when creaps screw 12yo kids. Sicko Culture.

Where are you from Chao Lao Beach?

I suggest you look also at your own people and culture, before you call Thai culture "Sicko"

I usually agree with costas, but not with this comment

Priests, Catholic ones in particular, were almost never prosecuted through the Church, their superiors just moved kiddie fiddlers to a new position ( not a new Karma sutra one as they were mostly with boys ) because many of them were also involved. It appears in Thailand the Abbots ignored their monks prediliction for young boys and girls for the same reason.

Celibacy and religion don't make good bedfellows.

Gunna, some of the prosecutions.

Here are the American cases that actually involved arrests:

Daniel McCormack, a self-confessed sexually abusive priest was sentenced to five years in prison for abusing five boys (8–12 years) in 2001.

Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was charged with molesting two teenage girls at a Catholic church in Greenbush, Minnesota, a small rural town near the Canadian border.

Father James Porter was a Roman Catholic priest who was convicted of molesting 28 children. He admitted sexually abusing at least 100 of both sexes over a period of 30 years, starting in the 1960s.

Reverend Mr. James "Ron" Gonsalves, Wailuku, Hawaii, Gonsalves the administrator of Saint Ann Roman Catholic Church in Waihee, Maui, pleaded guilty on May 17, 2006 to several counts of sexual assault on a 12-year-old male.

A Wisconsin priest, the Rev. Lawrence C Murphy, who taught at the former St. John School for the Deaf in the Milwaukee suburb of St. Francis, Wisconsin from 1950 to 1974, allegedly molested more than 200 deaf boys.

In 1981, the former Rev. Stephen Kiesle was convicted for tying up and molesting two boys in a California church rectory.

In 2005, Rev. Francis Engels pleaded guilty to molesting a Peoria altar boy on trips to Milwaukee in the early 1980s.

On November 21, 2005, Monsignor Dale Fushek of the Diocese of Phoenix was arrested and charged with 10 criminal misdemeanor counts related to alleged inappropriate sexual contact with teens and young adults.

[kuiburi]

Sick world .

If a person declared guilty by a court of law for child molesting or rape , the victems or family should be the ones that decide what penalty the

offender would get .

Anything allowed , jail , death sentence , amputation of certain bodyparts .

Really pisses me off to see rapist get 6 month's or less jailtime , and someone that screwed the taxoffice gets 2 to 3 years .

Victems of rape get life , there life will never be the same after the rape .

[piersbeckett]

Firstly the English in this topic is awful, and Talay huahin & The Scarf ought to be the first ones to be strung-up for that and 'taking the *iss'.

Following them every person who's tried to get hands up skirts, into blouses, up trousers or has made any sexual advances towards anyone, ever, in their whole lives or even had thoughts pertaining to any sexual activity with anyone without knowing for sure that they had reached the 'age of consent' in the country in which and at the time at which those people made those advances or had those thoughts.

A quick death will be guaranteed to those who give themselves up.

The Wats throughout Thailand have made the necessary arrangements to deal with the expected, extraordinary demand for incineration following the publication of this post.

[MMarlow]

Firstly the English in this topic is awful, and Talay huahin & The Scarf ought to be the first ones to be strung-up for that and 'taking the *iss'.

Following them every person who's tried to get hands up skirts, into blouses, up trousers or has made any sexual advances towards anyone, ever, in their whole lives or even had thoughts pertaining to any sexual activity with anyone without knowing for sure that they had reached the 'age of consent' in the country in which and at the time at which those people made those advances or had those thoughts.

A quick death will be guaranteed to those who give themselves up.

The Wats throughout Thailand have made the necessary arrangements to deal with the expected, extraordinary demand for incineration following the publication of this post.

Nah, let's string you up for contravening the rule that other poster's English is not to be criticised.

[Torrens54]

Happens everywhere around the world with people of all religions and even in the Boy Scouts.

I must have been a very ugly child though, as no one ever tried to touch me up.

So what will happen to these Monks, probably be "De-Frocked?"

[kannot]

It came as a big surprise to whom?

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

We can never generalize.

Not specific in Thailand, but all over the world.

yeah BUT theres always TOO MANY

[IBoldnewguy]

Most religions practice a form of sexual repression - chasity, abstinance, whatever - many religious devotees with sexual issues/fetishes/mental disorders join these organizations believing that they will be supernaturally cured if they just pray, meditate or have a strong enough faith. Many are encouraged to join these groups with little or no qualified vetting by the groups themselves.

"Evil seeks to hide in the perfect place with a perfect disguise.... and what is more perfect than a church/monastery.... and under the robes of a priest/monk." (paraphrased from an unknown quote).

So society then pays a price of more addn'l child victims. To allow children to be born into illiterate abject poverty could also be considered child abuse but society allows this to happen because interferrence (birth control education) would be infringing upon their freedom of religion. So a tragic endless cycle of birth, poverty, ignorance, abuse and death ensues. Many victims don't even know they are victims because this is the only life they've known; if a cage is all you've ever known then a cage is home.

I don't profess to have an answer to this tragic problem; but I think an answer should not be more irrational than the problem it tries to solve.

Edited May 30, 2014 by IBoldnewguy