Cambodian couple held for trafficking
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Police yesterday followed a 5-year-old boy dressed like a girl with long blonde hair to find a Cambodian couple, who they arrested on charges of human trafficking and illegal immigration.
Anti-Human Trafficking Division (AHTD) police arrested Rom San, 50, and his wife Pad San, 36. Police say the couple kidnapped the 5-year-old stepson of Rom’s 33-year-old ex-wife Angoun and brought him to Bangkok to beg.
After discovering the cross-dressing boy begging for money in front of Ramkhamhaeng University, AHTD police followed him home.
The two suspects admitted they had kidnapped the boy. They said they have been arrested 20 times for immigration violations over the past seven years, but were forced into the human-trafficking racket.
AHTD commander Pol Maj-General Chaowalit Sawaengpeuch said his agency would strictly suppress human trafficking, especially in tourist-frequented areas where there are children begging or selling flowers. Phuket will be the first target in the crackdown.
