Phuket man arrested for raping his stepdaughter and niece

police arrested A Thai man for rape repeatedly his nine-year-old stepdaughter and eleven-year-old Niece in the houses of his wife and his lover in the Chalong sub-district of Phuket.

A teacher at Ban Chalong School in Phuket reported to Chalong Police Station at around 8pm on July 6 that two young girls had been victims of a 37-year-old rapist named Montri.

The complaint was lodged with the Chalong Sub-District Administrative Office, which sent officials to the girls’ home later that day. The two girls, identified as nine-year-old Gam and 11-year-old Mam, were rescued and placed in the Phuket Provincial Children and Family Home for their safety.

Gam’s mother, Karn, and Mam’s grandmother, Thorn, are Montri’s wives. Thorn is the legal wife, while Karn is his mistress. There is no record of whether the two wives knew about each other.

Facebook news site Phuket Hotnews claimed that Karn knew about the sexual assault but did not take legal action against Montri because his legal wife, 37-year-old Thorn, had threatened her.

Karn, 27, told police she learned of the sexual assault from her daughter’s teacher. The girl told her that Montri had raped her several times and that she had lived in fear. MGR Online reported that Thorn also went to the police to file a complaint against her husband.

Officers immediately arrested Montri and rejected his bail application to prevent him from escaping arrest. Montri was later charged under Section 277 of the Criminal Law: sexual abuse of minors under 13 years of age. The penalty is seven to twenty years in prison and a fine of 140,000 to 400,000 baht, or life imprisonment.

In a similar case that came to light in January, police arrested a Thai man for raping both his biological daughter and stepdaughter over a period of more than 10 years. His biological daughter, 18, became pregnant after being raped since she was nine years old.

The girl’s mother knew about the sexual assaults but ignored them until the victims themselves asked the police for help.

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