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Thai police nab Dutch paedophile suspect
Dec 3, 2007, 10:06 GMT
Bangkok - Acting on an Interpol tip-off, Thai police arrested a 60-year-old Dutch national at Hua Hin beach resort on child sex abuse charges, authorities said Monday.
Williem Genard Knoppien, 60, was arrested Sunday shortly after police filmed a 12-year-old Thai boy entering and leaving his rented home in Hua Hin, 130 kilometres south of Bangkok.
'We had received a warning from Netherlands Interpol that Knoppien had a child abuse record so we were keeping an eye on him,' said Police Colonel Banya Pinsuk, of Thailand's Crimes Against Women and Children unit.
'We asked Knoppien's neighbours to tell us if anything suspicious happened,' he added.
On Sunday morning a man on a motorcycle brought a 12-year-old Thai boy to Knoppien's Hua Hin home. Police filmed the boy entering the foreigner's house and leaving one hour later.
Banya said the boy had confessed to having sex with Knoppien for 120 baht (3.50 dollars), while the man who delivered him on the motorcycle received another 200 baht (5.90 dollars).
Knoppien, a frequent visitor to Thailand, denied having sex with the child.
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Thanks for arresting this sick bastard. Ban all sextourism out of this world.
Give him life sentence!!!
Jesse! Jesse! Get the rope!
snijd z'n ballen d'r af en hang 'm op
kankerlijer
Good work cut of his balls .
Better arrested there then here. Here, this sick b*stard would be prowling the streets in no-time again. I`m sure they`ll use more 'appopriate' sentences in Thailand.
Good thing Dutch Interpol gave the hint about this vile creep. Now let's just hope he will get his ass killed in jail..
I guess he stopped paying the Thai police...
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another dutchmanDec 3rd, 2007 - 15:03:30
Cut off his balls and send him to the Taliban.
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