In Thailand’s sex tourism hub, bright lights flash, loud music blares – and underage girls are exploited

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Sky Kanyarat was playing pool in the early hours of the morning in one of Thailand’s most famous red light districts when a middle-aged foreigner with a heavy gait approached her.

She had often seen him walking past the bar where she worked in Pattaya, a city about a two-hour drive from Bangkok. But this was the first time Kanyarat had seen him come in.

As he passed under the bunting of flags from around the world, it appeared “he was drunk from somewhere else because he walked wobbly,” says Kanyarat, who identifies as a ladyboy, a term commonly used in Thailand’s transgender community.

He sat with her colleague, Tang, on a rattan cane couch, bought them both a drink and began nuzzling and massaging her.

The man asked Tang to go home with him, but she didn’t want to, and he left the bar at about 2am. It would be more than two days before Kanyarat would see his face again – and this time, it was on the news.

The man was Simon Peter Carman and he had been charged with murder.

Soon after leaving the bar on 25 June, police allege Carman went to the nearby palm-tree lined beach strip and met a 17-year-old girl named Thunchanok Donhomla who had only arrived a week before in Pattaya from Kalasin, an area in north-east Thailand with high levels of poverty. Police allege CCTV footage captured Donhomla holding Carman’s hand as they waited for an elevator in his condo’s lobby.

She was not seen alive again. The following night, her naked body and her belongings – her clothes, vape and platform sandals – were found in a suitcase left in high grass near the railway tracks.

Donhomla’s death has drawn international headlines and her family are demanding justice. Experts say her death speaks to broader issues in Thailand’s sex industry – including the underage girls exploited by it.... LINK

 

 

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At a guess this is from a story from some excuse of a reporter with an exclusive insight to Thai's sex industry.

Exploitation in LOS is a two way street IMHO.