Paedophile Agent Busted Following Pattaya Investigation

• 

A Thai man has been arrested in Pattaya on Sunday for a variety of underage sex offences. Resultant investigations uncovered a host of evidence including paedophilic material contained at his work and residence.

Pattaya, the 4^th of July 2010 [PDN]: At approximately 7:00pm on Sunday, Lieutenant Colonel Ormsin Sukkankha (Banglamung Police Investigator and Chief of the Children & Woman Protection Center Region 2) along with officers from the Welfare Protection and Child Development Center arrested a suspect involved with a child prostitution racket operating in Pattaya.
Mr. Supphakorn Noja (Welfare Protection and Child Development Center Director) revealed to police recent reports presented to his agency relating to indecent sexual acts performed on a minor and the subsequent production of a video involving the child. Resultant investigation revealed the offender to be Mr. Traiphop Bunphasong [40], a child prostitution agent operating in the area.
With the use of an arrest/search warrant officers busted Mr. Bunphasong whilst he was riding his motorbike in Soi Khaotalo, Pattaya. A search of his motorbike at the scene uncovered a lewd photograph of him and a young boy involved in an intimate pose at which point he was immediately arrested.

Officers presented Mr. Bunphasong with the arrest/search warrant and proceeded to his residence/business in the nearby Soi Nernplubwan. At the premises, an internet café with above residence, officers confiscated a hard-drive, memory card and handy drive all containing various forms of pornography involving young boys between the ages of 9-15. Documentation pertaining to a pornography business were also confiscated in the search.
Under interrogation, Mr. Bunphasong confessed to being an agent soliciting minors, primarily young boys, to a largely foreign clientele. He also confessed to having sold lewd photographs involving minors to overseas-based pornography websites. Mr. Bunphasong has been charged with multiple counts of sexual abuse of a minor under 15-years-old, deceiving minors into performing indecent acts, soliciting prostitution of a minor and illegal detention of a minor without parental consent.
Officers believe Mr. Bunphasong was a major agent in the underage homosexual prostitution industry in the area with over 40 young boys thought to be involved with the racket.