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Dinkum91
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Spotted this on the internet this morning. Who is telling the truth?
The girl says she was a sex slave. Rubbish, says the Australian. Connie Levett reports from Chiang Mai.
CHRISTOPHER Ronald White is behind bars in the Chiang Mai Central prison, accused of serious child sex offences. According to the 46-year-old Australian, he tried to help a poor girl and her family but was set up, his actions misconstrued. Behind the brave face is a bitter man.
Just kilometres away, the girl, Pan, lies in a public hospital. The 16-year-old wears a resigned half-smile as she talks about her baby girl, who died at birth earlier this week. For more than three years she lived in White's Bangkok house, attended a local temple school — and, she says, had sex with him, a charge he flatly denies.
In an Akha hill tribe village in Burma, overlooking the far northern Thai town of Mae Sai, Pan's father Aboya is a happy man. Two of his daughters have farang (Thai for foreigner) boyfriends, elevating his dirt-poor life to one with a cement floor and colour TV. In the village, no one says his daughters are prostitutes, but it is understood where the money comes from.
Sitting on a low stool in the tiny cement yard, he serves tea in chipped cups without handles, with green bananas and hot peanuts. "I think my daughters have a better life living with the farang," he said through a translator, showing pictures of the girls in swimming pools, at the beach and in well-appointed apartments. "And I like it materially, because I can ask my daughters for things."
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AdvertisementHe said the older girl's boyfriend gave him 3000 baht (about $A98) a month, and had paid for his cement house. But White had given him little, saying it was enough he was caring for Pan.
White's story emerged on August 23, when he was paraded for the cameras in Chiang Mai. Thai-language news reports accused him of everything from holding a 13-year-old girl as a sex slave for three years, forcing her to perform sexual acts with him in pornographic videos for export to Australia, and luring other girls from Chiang Mai to Bangkok for similar purposes.
The reports said 35 pornographic DVDs were confiscated in a raid on his Bangkok home. Only two had pornographic content. The claims were picked up by news agencies and widely reported in Australia.
"My face is all over the West Australian newspapers," White told The Age. " (The police) didn't do an investigation, they just arrested me. My career has been destroyed."
He has been charged with having sex with a girl aged under 15 — rape under Thai law — and sexual harassment and abuse.
"I treated her exactly the same way I treated my own daughter," he said. "I tried to help her poor family, I tried to help her better herself." Asked if he had sex with her, he said: "No, it would be like having sex with my own daughter."
The young victim: this picture of Pan - obscured for legal reasons - was taken when she was 13, just after she moved into Christopher White's Bangkok home.
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Pan has a different story. "I met him at the night bazaar in Chiang Mai," she said in a mix of broken English and Thai. "I was selling flowers and Ami (another flower seller) introduced him. He asked me if I wanted to come to Bangkok. I am Akha so I have no identity papers. He bought some for me and two weeks later I moved to Bangkok."
At first he treated her well, she said. He sent her to school and took her once a year to see her father (her mother is dead). He even sent her on a holiday.
Did they have a sexual relationship? "Yes, since the first time I went to Bangkok.
"I went to Phuket for a holiday, and Christopher told me not to get a boyfriend. I have a boyfriend, and he was angry to me.
"Then he was choking, beating me, rape. He throw something at me like a vase," she said.
She became pregnant. The paternity is still unclear. DNA tests are being conducted. White said she had stopped living with him by September last year.
Earlier this year she spoke with a social worker in Mae Sai. An investigation began. A Thai housekeeper who lived at the house has supported Pan's claim, according to police. White's biological daughter, who lived with them in Bangkok for part of that time, has reportedly dismissed it as lies.
White claims Pan is just an excuse, that his career is what put him behind bars. The former Western Australian policeman has worked in the region as a private investigator and security expert for 15 years, the past five based in Bangkok. Last year Burswood Casino hired him to serve a writ, listed in the WA Supreme Court, on Phongthip Aektrakul, a Thai woman with political connections in Chiang Mai, who led a gambling tour to Perth in 2001 and failed to pay the bill. When he presented the writ to Ms Phongthip in August 2004 in Poipet, a gambling city, "She said to me, 'Don't come back to Poipet or you will not leave walking'," he said.
The casino story was published in Thailand on August 22. Next day Chiang Mai police arrested White in Bangkok.
White's claims of a payback are dismissed by Jareewan Puttanuruk, Chiang Mai's police investigator on child sexual abuse. The investigation started on June 28, she said. The arrest warrant was issued on August 15.
White has another problem. In June and August, Australian Federal Police intercepted packages containing child pornography tapes, sent by a "Ryan White". He admits sending them, saying he was tired of trying to get Thai police to deal with the child porn problem, and was hoping to "obtain an awareness of what was happening here".
"I did it to make a difference," he claims.
The courts, first in Thailand, and possibly later in Australia, will decide what difference White has made.
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Posted on: 6:54 pm on Sep. 2, 2005
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Oaktoad
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Not knowing all the facts, my guess is the guy did have sex with a 13 year old.. I have known guys that have done this, so not a big surprise..
video's also no surprise..
As I don't like child mosestors, I hope he rots in jail for a long time
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Posted on: 7:06 pm on Sep. 2, 2005
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paddyc01
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If that is the case then I second that.
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Posted on: 9:35 pm on Sep. 2, 2005
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Mel Gibson
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If he did do it,,, send him to an Aussie jail ( gaol),, we may have nicer jails ( gaols) but in Australia a "rock-spider" ne child molester is bashed/abused/beaten/ass-f***ed everyday for his entire sentence which should be LIFE.
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Posted on: 1:01 am on Sep. 3, 2005
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Basher
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Hey if he is guilty then sure he deserves all he gets....
But what if he IS innocent? all this has been thrown at him, the people he has helped have turned against him and are after whatever they can get.
I know of this happening in Trang before, to a Thai lad though not a Farrang, he was accused of rape.
She was the village bike from the age of twelve and was shagging all and sundry, by the time she was 15 this fella had come into some money and the girls evil drug dealing mother hatched a plan to get rich quick.... Poor bugger spent years in jail.
Like I say if he is guilty he should be put down like a rabid dog... but if he is innocent, he is surely suffering for his good intentions, all on the word of the village bike...
Bash
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Posted on: 1:14 am on Sep. 3, 2005
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modusoperandi
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Quote: from Dinkum91 on 7:23 am on Sep. 3, 2005
White has another problem. In June and August, Australian Federal Police intercepted packages containing child pornography tapes, sent by a "Ryan White". He admits sending them, saying he was tired of trying to get Thai police to deal with the child porn problem, and was hoping to "obtain an awareness of what was happening here".
"I did it to make a difference," he claims.
Haha bullshit.
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Posted on: 3:35 pm on Sep. 3, 2005
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modusoperandi
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Quote: from Basher on 1:43 pm on Sep. 3, 2005
Hey if he is guilty then sure he deserves all he gets....
But what if he IS innocent? all this has been thrown at him, the people he has helped have turned against him and are after whatever they can get.
Even if you believe the "set up" theory that he's putting forth that still doesn't explain the child porn intercepted overseas by Australian police. He even admits he sent it and his explanation sounds like 100% horse shit considering the fact that he was living with a young girl at the time.
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Posted on: 3:46 pm on Sep. 3, 2005
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DaffyDuck
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The claims were that he made sex videos with the 13 year old, for export to Australia. Should be easy to track these down, and use as evidence. That ought to clear things up.
Yes, there's certainly folks that would have sex with a 13-year old (he's aussie, right?), but likewise, there's plenty of times when a poor Thai family is trying to shake down the gullible farang... Too hard to tell from the article.
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Posted on: 5:13 am on Sep. 5, 2005
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modusoperandi
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Hey guys i'm going to go rob a bank now, if I get caught i'll just tell the police i'm testing the bank's security.
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Posted on: 8:47 am on Sep. 5, 2005
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LiamOZ
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Daffy said,
There's certainly folks that would have sex with a 13-year old (he's aussie, right?)..........
IMHO if he is guilty he is no longer an Aussie in mine and most Aussie eyes. If he is not, I pity the poor bastard. The kiddy porn thing is at best foolish, but probably a disgusting indictment.
FWIW I did know one guy who about 20 years ago showed me and some mates some kiddy porn picked up from India - made me sick. He told me he just wanted to show people how sick the world was getting. Sounded suspect then, but he did then proceed to destroy it in front of us. I always wondered about this guy, whether he just destroyed it because of our damning reaction.
Whatever the case this guy is in the shit.
Liam
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Posted on: 5:30 pm on Sep. 5, 2005
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