Hospital director, two others, arrested for buying teenage sex
published : 21 Apr 2023 at 14:30
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Wassayos Ngamkham
A hospital director and two other men have been arrested for buying sex services from girls under 18 in Loei province.
Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division (ATPD) officers apprehended the director of a hospital in Loei, a municipal worker and an air conditioning repairman on Thursday.
The suspects were wanted on charges of buying sex from girls under 18 and enticing them into lewd activities, police said.
The arrests were made following the arrest of a married couple early this year for procuring underage girls into prostitution in this northeastern province. The couple charged customers between 2,000 and 10,000 baht per sex service and gave the girls 1,000 baht each.
During questioning, the three men admitted to buying sex from girls under the couple's control.
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Vocabulary
- apprehended (verb): caught; arrested; caught by the police - ถูกจับ, โดนจับกุม
- arrest: (of the police) taking someone to a police station because they are believed to have committed a crime - การจับกุม
- entice: persuade someone to do something by offering them something pleasant - ล่อใจ
- lewd: referring to sex in a rude and offensive way - ลามก
- municipal: of a town, city or district with its own local government - เทศบาล
- procure: to provide a prostitute for somebody -
- prostitution: the business of selling sex - การค้าประเวณี
- repairman: a person whose job is to fix things - ช่างซ่อม
- suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
- trafficking: dealing in illegal goods, like drugs, weapons or in illegally moving humans or animals from one place to another - การค้าสิ่งที่ผิดกฎหมาย
