A mother has been arrested for allegedly pimping her mentally handicapped daughter to seven men, then blackmailing them into paying as much as 250,000 baht.

Ms Kannanat, 39, (surname withheld), was caught in Bangkok. 

Earlier, a salesman, 24, told police that Ms Kannanat and Ms Yingluck Yoo-in had allegedly extorted money from him. He accused them of taking a 19-year-old mentally handicapped woman to sleep with him. 

He told police that he had met the teen on the “Badoo’’ dating application. They met and he took her to sleep at a resort. 

He then received a phone call from his father that two women came to his house. One of them complained he had lured her daughter to have sex and threatened to arrest him.

Ms Kannanat told him she was the mother of the girl, while Ms Yingluck claimed she was her aunt. 

She had demanded 250,000 baht from him in exchange for not telling the police. 

Two weeks later, a man known to the women met him and said that the girl was mentally handicapped and was used by her mother to extort money from men.

Police later summonsed Ms Yingluck for questioning.