Generational offender
The Buri Ram youngster texts her Mum.
B, originally from Ban Dan district, complained to local police after her daughter, A, aged 11, sent her a Line message revealing a neighbour, Luan, 72, had molested her over the past two years.
B works in Nakhon Ratchasima but came back to comfort her daughter and lay a police complaint after hearing the news.
A, who lives with her great-grandmother in the district, had long kept the abuse from her mother, as the old man had threatened to harm her if she said anything. It came to light after A was admitted to hospital for a stomach complaint and the doctor noticed cut marks along her left arm.
Under questioning, the girl admitted she inflicted self-harm by slashing her arm to relieve stress associated with the abuse episodes, which took place in a hut in a vegetable plantation.
Luan would invite her to help him plant vegetables and molest her. He would threaten her if she refused to come back to see him, with the result that he molested her many times, she told the doctor.
B said she was shocked to hear news of the abuse, as Luan, she recounted, abused herself when she was growing up in Ban Dan; in fact; she was the same age as her daughter, just nine, when the abuse started. She is now in her 30s.
Police sent the girl for a checkup at hospital and on the basis of the evidence gathered, including from a team of social workers who spoke to the girl, charged Luan with depriving a minor of her parents and molesting the girl.
The old man, who was called in by police, denied the charges. He admitted inviting the girl to help him plant vegetables but said he did not abuse her. He also denied abusing the mother many years ago.
“My life has nothing left now. I live on state-owned land; I have no land of my own, unlike other people around here,” he said, in an evident appeal for sympathy.
A day after he was confined to the police cell, Luan’s family bailed him out to fight the case. However, shortly after that, the village head advised police that Luan had been found dead at his home after taking insecticide.
Media reports said he no doubt wanted to escape legal penalty for what he did so decided to take his own life.
B, who has returned to work in Nakhon Ratchasima, and took her daughter with her, says the old man died too fast. “It is not fitting given all the suffering he caused,” she said, adding her daughter was gradually feeling better after the episode.
Blind justice
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| Ratchanee: Worried Mum |
A Bangkok woman is seeking justice from the CIB in a case in which her son was left partially blinded when a mate attacked him over a social media post.
Ratchanee, 54, took her son, Pornthep, 27, to see the Central Investigation Bureau after her complaint with Kannayao station, in whose patch the attack occurred, failed to make progress.
Ratchanee said the attacker, Yotsathon, was a life-long friend of her son’s but the pair fell out over nasty comments which Yotsathon left on her son’s social media posts.
When Pornthep asked to clear the air, Yotsathon, who was wearing a motorcycle helmet for protection, charged at him with a knife and stabbed him in the eye.
Pornthep said he went empty-handed as he was not expecting a fight. However, Yotsathon said his mate called an elder before their meeting asking him to act as referee in the event the two came to blows.
He also said Pornthep was aggressive and abusive when he turned up at his place, and he did not know if he had brought allies with him or was asking for a fight.
Ratchanee says she is upset that Yotsathon is still walking around a free man. Police have yet to charge him, even though the attack occurred five months ago, and her son had lost the sight in one eye. “He needed an operation as his retina was shattered, and was in hospital for a week,” she said.
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| Pornthep: Nursing injury |
“Later they sent him to a more advanced hospital where they had to operate again and remove the eyeball to avoid an infection spreading to the other eye. Pornthep told me when he was in the hospital that he didn’t want to carry on any more as he could barely see, but I urged him to hang on as my own health isn’t good and we have to be there for each other,” she told reporters.
“He is my only child and the main breadwinner, but since the accident no one wants to hire him as he is now partially sighted,” she added.
Last time she checked, the police had yet to assign the complaint a case number. They also kept putting her off, claiming variously in defence of their delays that their computer was broken, or that the officer in charge had a bad stomach.
“We have sought damages of 1.5 million baht but the other side say they can’t afford it. They suggest we ask for less and they will pay it off every month,” she said.
“But even if Yotsathon goes to jail for what he did, one day he will be free, but my son has lost his sight in one eye for life,” she said.
Yotsathon apologised to her for attacking her son, and claimed he didn’t mean to do it. She wants police to charge him with attempting to kill.
“My treatment has cost hundreds of thousands, and my Social Security scheme coverage has almost run out, as I was working less than a year before the attack,” Pornthep said.
Yotsathon’s mother, who also spoke to the media, said police called her son in for questioning after the incident, so had not been sitting idle. CIB police said they would contact Kannayao police about the delay.
Neighbourhood menace
Police are looking for a Khon Kaen man who has broken into his neighbour’s house three times to fawn over her 16-year-old granddaughter.
Lak Sornsakda, 60, complained to Ban Ped police in Muang district after Supoj Phromsodha, 49, her neighbour, climbed over her dividing wall and entered her granddaughter’s bedroom three times. Her granddaughter, who has never spoken to Mr Supoj, has woken up in time to find the man there and called for help.
“He claims he loves her the way ‘all men’ are attracted to young kids. He often stands by the wall masturbating as he watches my granddaughter inside the house, but I pay no attention as I don’t want to get involved,” she said.
“He has broken in three times now; the last two times were caught on CCTV, but the police case appears to have stalled,” she told reporters. Barbed wire is overlaid on the wall. She has now put corrugated iron against the wall as an extra deterrent. Some media reports said he scaled the wall, while others said he burrowed under.
Ms Lak said she has raised her granddaughter since she was a child, as her parents split up. Mr Supoj broke in the first time on Sept 3. “He prised open the window, woke the girl and called her over to talk. My granddaughter was shocked and called for help. I told the village head, who called in Mr Supoj for a chat. He paid 5,000 baht in damages in return for us not going to the police, and vowed he would not do it again.”
On Sept 13, however, he broke in again. Once again, the girl called out for help, and this time CCTV caught him in the act, so Ms Lak took the evidence to the police.
On Oct 12, seemingly undeterred, he broke in again. The girl called out for help, but this time no one heard her, so she called on her phone to say someone had entered her room. “I grabbed a knife and headed in there but by the time I got there he had fled,” Ms Lak said.
Ban Ped police deny they are sitting idle, and claim they are still looking for the offender. “We will ask the court to issue a warrant for trespass. When we catch him we’ll ask about the other offences and test him for drugs,” said station head Pol Col Nacharot Kaewpetch.
“He is my only child and the main breadwinner, but since the accident no one wants to hire him as he is now partially sighted,” she added.
Last time she checked, the police had yet to assign the complaint a case number. They also kept putting her off, claiming variously in defence of their delays that their computer was broken, or that the officer in charge had a bad stomach.
“We have sought damages of 1.5 million baht but the other side say they can’t afford it. They suggest we ask for less and they will pay it off every month,” she said.
“But even if Yotsathon goes to jail for what he did, one day he will be free, but my son has lost his sight in one eye for life,” she said.
Yotsathon apologised to her for attacking her son, and claimed he didn’t mean to do it. She wants police to charge him with attempting to kill.
“My treatment has cost hundreds of thousands, and my Social Security scheme coverage has almost run out, as I was working less than a year before the attack,” Pornthep said.
Yotsathon’s mother, who also spoke to the media, said police called her son in for questioning after the incident, so had not been sitting idle. CIB police said they would contact Kannayao police about the delay.
Neighbourhood menace
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| Supoj breaking into neighbour’s house. |
Police are looking for a Khon Kaen man who has broken into his neighbour’s house three times to fawn over her 16-year-old granddaughter.
Lak Sornsakda, 60, complained to Ban Ped police in Muang district after Supoj Phromsodha, 49, her neighbour, climbed over her dividing wall and entered her granddaughter’s bedroom three times. Her granddaughter, who has never spoken to Mr Supoj, has woken up in time to find the man there and called for help.
“He claims he loves her the way ‘all men’ are attracted to young kids. He often stands by the wall masturbating as he watches my granddaughter inside the house, but I pay no attention as I don’t want to get involved,” she said.
“He has broken in three times now; the last two times were caught on CCTV, but the police case appears to have stalled,” she told reporters. Barbed wire is overlaid on the wall. She has now put corrugated iron against the wall as an extra deterrent. Some media reports said he scaled the wall, while others said he burrowed under.
Ms Lak said she has raised her granddaughter since she was a child, as her parents split up. Mr Supoj broke in the first time on Sept 3. “He prised open the window, woke the girl and called her over to talk. My granddaughter was shocked and called for help. I told the village head, who called in Mr Supoj for a chat. He paid 5,000 baht in damages in return for us not going to the police, and vowed he would not do it again.”
On Sept 13, however, he broke in again. Once again, the girl called out for help, and this time CCTV caught him in the act, so Ms Lak took the evidence to the police.
On Oct 12, seemingly undeterred, he broke in again. The girl called out for help, but this time no one heard her, so she called on her phone to say someone had entered her room. “I grabbed a knife and headed in there but by the time I got there he had fled,” Ms Lak said.
Ban Ped police deny they are sitting idle, and claim they are still looking for the offender. “We will ask the court to issue a warrant for trespass. When we catch him we’ll ask about the other offences and test him for drugs,” said station head Pol Col Nacharot Kaewpetch.
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