Payment in kind
A Buri Ram woman claims her husbnd forced her to have sex with another man to pay off his drug debts.
"A", 31, complained to Nang Rong police last week that her husband, "M", 27, a convicted drug user and thief, had twice forced her to have sex with a man at a local motel. He took a video clip of them in bed and threatened to release it on social media if she complained.
A, who has been married to M for 10 years and with whom she has two young daughters, said her husband asked her out for a meal in late December last year, and tricked her to the motel, claiming he had some business to do there. When she walked into the unit she found a stranger waiting.
"My husband ordered me to have sex with him and refused to say why. I tried to flee but M threatened to hit me as he has done in the past, so I agreed in fear of my life," she told police. She claims her husband secretly filmed the couple having sex, and later threatened to release it. "I tried to quit with him but M said if I did that or found someone else he would release the clip."
A month later, M told her to have sex with the same man again. She refused, and he brought out the clip for her to watch. Reluctantly, A again agreed to take part.
The young woman said she grew depressed and saw a doctor. Finally, on May 10, she asked an aunt from Pakham district to rescue her and the kids. She has now gone into hiding, hopping between relatives' homes as she is worried that M will track them down and harm them.
Neighbours who spoke to reporters said A is attractive and her husband appeared to be exploiting her good looks to make money.
A said her husband has a history of assaulting her and messing with drugs. While she did not know why he forced her to have sex, she suspected it was to pay off drug debts, given his past.
"I didn't know he was caught up in drugs, but found out when someone in the village told me," she said.
"I told him to quit the habit but he didn't listen and was eventually nabbed for possessing drugs and for theft," she added. "However, he always goes back to drugs."
Police tracked M down to Wang Saphung district, Loei province, where his family lives, and where he and his mother had been hired to plant potatoes. Media reports say he put up no resistance, but denied his wife's claims.
A, he said, was keen on group sex and asked him to find men for her via a dating site. He confirmed she had sex with a stranger twice at a motel, but said she was a willing party and also consented to the videos, as she wanted something to look back on.
Unconvinced, police charged him with joining rape and rape of others by threats and use of violence, and filming the acts for unlawful exploitation.
Brazen attack on street
An Ayutthaya woman is facing attempted murder charges after ambushing her errant husband and his girlfriend as they went to vote last Sunday.
Samorn, inset, shoots at her husband in the street.
"Samorn", 61, travelled to Samut Prakan after hearing her husband, "Somkid", 63, a serial womaniser in her telling, was taking his latest fling to vote in soi Wat Dan of Dan Samrong district.
CCTV footage shows her trying to stop his Isuzu pickup truck as he and the girlfriend left the polling station.
Somkid refused to park the vehicle, so she pulled out his .38 revolver and fired at it. Then she jumped on the bed of the truck, shot a hole in the rear window, and carried on firing into the cab.
Miraculously, Somkid was not hit. The CCTV footage shows him stopping and starting his vehicle in a jerky motion to knock his wife off balance, who kept firing regardless.
The shooting encounter ended dramatically when he crashed his vehicle into a nearby power pole in front of startled onlookers.
Somkid next opens the door to his vehicle and tries to flee but his plucky wife jumps off the back and stabs him with a knife. Somkid's girlfriend, meanwhile, flees through the front passenger door and quickly leaves the scene. Police were looking for her.
Onlookers managed to prise Samorn and her husband apart and call police. Somkid was sent to hospital where doctors patched him up with three stitches to the neck, five stitches to his left hand, and six stitches to the trunk of his leg. He escaped many injuries from the shooting, even though police found five spent shells at the scene.
Samorn said she had been married to her husband for 20 years but the two were estranged thanks to his philandering. She last saw him late last year when Somkid broke up with one of his girlfriends and came back to her.
"He has done this many times and always ends up broke," she told police. "Later he found someone else, and was taking her about the place in his pickup, and rented a house for them in Lat Krabang in Bangkok.
"When I heard he intended to take her to Samut Prakan to vote, I travelled there and lay in wait."
Samorn claimed she merely meant to intimidate her husband, not harm him. However, she was wearing a hood in the clip, suggesting an attempt to disguise her identity. The revolver, she said, belonged to her husband. Police also found her with two knives.
They charged her with attempted murder. No word was available on her husband's reaction.
Breach of trust
A Chaiyaphum man denies claims that he and a neighbour conspired to molest his stepdaughter.
The child who was allegedly abused.
Police are looking for the neighbour, identified as Komsorn, after the alleged victim and her younger sister, accompanied by their mother, complained to Thep Sathit police. They have already spoken to the stepfather, Saichon, 39, who denies any knowledge of the abuse and said he was shocked to hear his neighbour was involved.
Earlier, "Mink", 9, told reporters that her stepfather and Komsorn had molested her elder sister, "A", 12. She had seen A abused twice in her bedroom, and the men persisted even when she cried and begged them to stop.
Her stepdad and his neighbour would wait until her mother was outside home attending to errands, she said. The older girl confirmed she had been molested, news reports said.
She would not answer directly when quizzed about Komsorn allegedly molesting her at a reservoir in the village on May 14. However, she was scared and frightened, the reports said.
Chumphae, 32, their mother, took the girls to police to make a complaint. While their stepfather denied it, police say they found Line messages on A's phone from neighbour Komsorn written in a flirtatious vein.
Chumphae said she went out to collect water with her husband Saichon on May 14 and left Komsorn and A alone at home. When she returned the pair weren't there. She contacted them on chat, and learned that Komsorn had taken A out for a treat. He brought her home later before Komsorn travelled back to the provinces to resume work, she said.
