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Thailand & child sex industry

Tourist visiting Thailand with the hope of having sex with children are finally at risk of being caught for child abuse.

In order to protect the rights of children, many countries have introduced a range of special procedures to make the legal process less of a traumatic experience for the children. As of September 2000, Thailand has enacted a child-friendly legal process with the introduction of a multidisciplinary team during the interview process. The interview is recorded on videotape and then played back in court. During the trial, the child victim is placed in another room and offers testifies through a video-link that is relayed into the room where the trial is in progress.

The result is that more and more victims of child sexual abuse have come forth to offer cooperation with law enforcement authorities in prosecuting the abusers.

Tourists to Thailand convicted of child sexual abuse

* James Ronald Hammond, a British national, caught in 1997 having sex with a 17-year old child from a bar in Chiang Mai was arrested, prosecuted and served a one-year prison sentence in Thailand.

* Bjorndal Alf Oddvar, a Norwegian national, was prosecuted in January 1998 for having sex with an 11-year old boy in Pattaya and sentenced to 40-months in prison.

* Chemouil Amnon Itshaac has oral sex with a 16-year old girl in prostitution in Chonburi in 1997, was apprehended in France and prosecuted in Paris in October 2000. He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and ordered to pay compensation to his victim.

Thailand has started to tighten their laws against child prostitution and the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) plays an active part in preventing child molestation.

TAT Supports The Fight Against The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC).

The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) unequivocally supports the fight against child prostitution and opposes all forms of sex tourism to Thailand.

TAT has taken a firm stance on preventing and discouraging sex-related tourism and pursues the following policies on the prevention of sex tourism, and particularly child prostitution.

Although Thai authorities such as TAT say they do what they can, Thailand parents are still eager to sell their children, according to reports on the net. From this it can easily be assumed that it is possible to bribe Thai police too. But at least Thailand can see the problem.

How to hinder or stop child prostitution and child abuse or molestation.
Thailand should take the children from parents when it is discovered that the parents have sold their children to slave labour or the tourist sex industry.
Thailand should also have anti-child-sex-task-forces with in the police and visit the cities famous for child prostitution.
Reading from Thai related sites it is easy to understand that the players in the tourist industry of Thailand (not the official but the hotels and restaurants, resorts etc) do little to prevent sexual child abuse but rather assists in it by eagerly and quickly providing children to tourists that ask for young child sex.
Such players are already sentenced severely, but lack of police enforcement is CLEARLY the problem. Thai law makers need to take the problem seriously and increase the budget for police investigation in this field, if Thailand is not to continue as being famous for child sex industry.
Thailand should sentence tourists that have had kiddie sex to a minimum of 10 years of Thai enprisonment. That would make the pedophiles think twice!!