(L to R) Grandfather
Somsak Wannajan and uncles Surachai Wannajan and Kodoi Wannajan, along
with the 14-year-old girl’s father (inset) have been arrested and
charged with rape.
Patcharapol Panrak
The father, grandfather and two uncles of a Bang Saray girl have
been arrested for allegedly raping the child for the past five years.
Sattahip Police, public officials and National Command Center for Drugs
captured father Det Phewonn, 38; grandfather Somsak Wannajan, 52; and
uncles Surachai Wannajan, 44; and Kodoi Wannajan, 38, July 20 after
father and grandfather got in a jealous knife fight over the 14-year-old
girl.
The incestuous travesty had been a grotesque, and only partially hidden,
family secret for the past five years. The child’s unidentified mother
told police she’d been aware of her husband’s sexual abuse, but she’d
been too busy working to feed her four younger children.
The fact her father and two brothers had been serially abusing her
eldest child since she was nine had been kept from her, she claimed.
Police said the girl told social workers her mother’s father had been
the first to abuse her when she was nine. He’d warned to her stay
silent, but when Surachai found out in 2010, he joined in. The same was
true for Kodoi, who instead of reporting the crime, began raping the
girl, too. Finally, she said, her father began abusing her because
everyone else had been.
All four men denied the charges.
