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German, Briton arrested
on pedophile charges
Karl Josef Ruppel is taken
into custody by police officers.
Teerarak Suthathiwong
Two westerners and a Thai transvestite have been arrested in
connection with the molestation of at least three young boys in Pattaya.
Region 2 Children and Women’s Protection Center officers arrested German
Karl Josef Ruppel, 69, and Briton Andrew John Tracey, 60, Feb. 1 in
separate arrests in Pattaya and Bang Saray. Police also apprehended
Rachan Panpleng, 51, who was accused with pimping as 12-year-old boy to
an unidentified third foreigner.
Rappel was taken into custody at the Rina Lodge, where he allegedly paid
a 14-year-old boy 200 baht for oral sex. Investigators alleged the
German had found the boy at Chaimongkol Temple.
Officers then apprehended Rachan, who they claim procured young boys for
foreigners from shopping malls, then delivered them to a South Pattaya
restaurant where their sexual services were sold for 2,000 baht. Rachan
is accused of keeping half of that fee.
Tracey was arrested at his house in Bang Sarary where he’d allegedly
been taking underage boys he picked up in Pattaya shopping malls, paying
them 300-500 baht for sexual services.
Phalisorn Noja, director of Anti Human Trafficking and Child Abuse
Center, said Tracey had been under surveillance for three years.
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