Thai authorities take action after a local guide assaulted a German backpacker on Koh Chang
Following a disturbing incident in which a German backpacker was assaulted by a local guide on Koh Chang, Thai authorities have taken swift action to ensure safety and high standards in the tourism sector. This response includes stricter controls on local tour operators and improved cooperation between police, government organizations and communities to prevent recurrence.
Sex and the lack of mutual consent
In Thailand, too, subjects such as assault and rape are not shunned. Unfortunately, it often remains with naming the victim by name, surname and with or without a photo.
In recent weeks we have made the media a large number of abuses in Thai schools. For example, a school in Bangkok is now in the spotlight, where very young children were beaten, pinched and roughly pushed over by the teachers. But in addition to physical abuse in schools, stories of sexual abuse sometimes come out. Thisrupt let a young lady speak about being assaulted by her teacher. She was crying on the toilet as a sixteen-year-old when a teacher 'tried to comfort' her.
Thai man arrested for groping women's breasts on city buses
On Wednesday evening, a 36-year-old Thai man from Pathum Thani was arrested who has now confessed to having touched women's breasts on six bus lines. The man reportedly molested 30 women between August and November.
