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Child Sex Ring Busted 25 Arrest Warrants Issued in Chiang Mai

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Major Kriangsak was arrested for paying for sexual services including group sex from three girls aged between 13 and 15

Ret. Major Kriangsak was arrested for paying for sexual services including group sex from three girls aged between 13 and 15 – Photo CityNews

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CHIANG MAI – Pol Maj Gen Songtham Anlapart, deputy chief of Region 5 Provincial Police told reporters that arrest warrants have been issued for 25 people — including government workers, politicians, a former abbot and an ex-soldier for allegedly molesting underage girls in Chiang Mai.

The 23 alleged pedophiles are wanted on charges of sexual abuse of a child under 15, regardless of whether the child is willing or not, Pol Maj Gen Songtham Anlapart told the Bangkok Post.

Pol Maj Gen Songtham Anlapart said a total of 25 warrants were issued after Children and Women’s Protection Centre and anti-human trafficking officers rescued three girls aged ages 13-15 from a brothel where they forced into prostitution by a woman listed in the warrants.

The underage girls told authorities the women contacted clients through the Line mobile-messaging application.

It was reported that those wanted included well-known figures in the Chiang Mai social society, among them were Senior Ministry Bureaucrats, successful businessmen, local politicians and some university lecturers.

Of the 25 warrants issued, about a dozen suspects have already been arrested.

Among them are Ret. Maj Kriengsak Maiwong, 60, a former army officer attached to a camp in Chiang Mai, and Pone Sungsiri, 47, a former abbot of a well-known temple in the province.

Maj Kriengsak is accused of simultaneously molesting all three girls at a “love hotel” in Chiang Mai’s Santitham area. Police apprehended him at his home in tambon Don Kaew of Mae Rim district on Monday afternoon.

He denied the charges during questioning.

Pol Col Wachira Karnchanawipada, chief of Chang Puak police station, told Thairath Online that Maj Kriengsak’s relatives posted bail with a surety of 200,000 baht this morning so that he could prepare to fight the case in court.

The police investigator believed the suspect did not pose a flight risk and allowed him to be released on bail, Pol Col Wachira said.

By Cheewin Sattha

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