Crime
76 Year-old Japanese Man Arrested in Pattaya for Buying Sex From a 13-year-old Girl
PATTAYA – Police arrested a 21 year-old Thai woman early on Wednesday for allegedly soliciting a 13-year-old girl to sell sex to a 71-year-old Japanese man in Pattaya.
Police arrested Ployphan Muangdit, 20, at a restaurant on Soi Yai Lia 31 in Tambon Nong Plue of Chon Buri’s Bang Lamung district at 12.20am.
The arrest came after Hiroyuki Nakashima was arrested at a condominium on Jomtien Beach for allegedly buying sex from a 13-year-old girl on Monday.
Police raided the condo room after receiving tips that the elderly man liked to buy sex services from underage girls.
Mr. Nakashima, admitted to liking underage girls and had been operating in the Pattaya area for some time.
Police confiscated dozens of videos and evidence from Mr. Nakashima’s condo and he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, as will Ms. Muangdit.