Traiphop
“Joe” Bunphasong was arrested whilst watching
a movie in Central Pattaya.
Boonlua Chatree
The Singburi man who allegedly supplied an elderly
Japanese man with an underage boy has been arrested for the second time in
four months on child-prostitution charges.
Traiphop “Joe” Bunphasong was hauled out of a Central
Pattaya movie theater Nov. 17 by Child and Women’s Protection Center
officers armed with a new arrest warrant charging the 40-year-old with
trafficking children. Traiphop was arrested in July on the same charges, but
released on bail.
Traiphop’s capture stems from the Nov. 2 arrest of
65-year-old Isao Handa on charges he abused a 13-year-old boy. Investigators
said the Japanese man named Traiphop as the pimp who arranged his liaison.
Lt. Col. Kreetha Tankhanarat, deputy chief for the
child-protection division, said Handa is suspected of being only one of
several foreigners who had procured underage children from Traiphop since he
was bailed out from his July arrest.
