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May 13th, 2006, 13:41
Courtesy Bangkok Post Saturday 13th May 2006
"A British man charged with child sex abuse in Pattaya has apparently committed suicide, while an American paedophile was deported to face further charges. The body of Nichols Rabet, 57, was found on a bed with hands and legs handcuffed and a plastic bag around his head. Police said there was no trace of any struggle. A suicide note said: "This is my only way out." Last July, Rabet, a former deputy head at a British children's home, was arrested in Pattaya and charged with multiple paedophile offences. He had been on bail for about 10 months and was found dead at his home in Bang Lamung. The man had been under extreme pressure as he was released on bail over accusations of having sex with an underage boy and was expected to stand trial on May 29, police said.
The second paedophile found the taste of freedom to be bitter.
Steven Erik Prowler, also 57, was extradited after spending a year in a Thai jail, and now will face more charges back home in California. "Americans who sexually exploit children anywhere in the world" will not be spared, Ann Hurst, attache to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, said yesterday. The agency has been working with its law enforcement partners overseas to bring Americans who have committed child sex crimes to stand trial at home.
To send a message to the rest of the paedophile community, Prowler was yesterday deported and accompanied by ICE agents to the US. He will face charges of travelling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, she said. Both charges carry a maximum imprisonment term of 30 years each. The 57-year-old English teacher at Ramkhamhaeng University's Demonstration School had spent a year behind bars on charges of detaining and molesting minors. He was nabbed in May last year at his rented apartment in Bang Kapi district after having sex with two boys, aged 15 and 16. Police said Prowler admitted knowing the two boys for three or four years and paying them 250 baht each time they came over to offer sex services.
With the assistance of ICE agents, police found at the apartment hundreds of photographs of naked teenage boys taken by Prowler, who had lived in the kingdom for six years. Police also recovered handwritten accounts of sexual encounters with underage boys in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Mexico and the US over the past 10 years."
250 baht a new low.
"A British man charged with child sex abuse in Pattaya has apparently committed suicide, while an American paedophile was deported to face further charges. The body of Nichols Rabet, 57, was found on a bed with hands and legs handcuffed and a plastic bag around his head. Police said there was no trace of any struggle. A suicide note said: "This is my only way out." Last July, Rabet, a former deputy head at a British children's home, was arrested in Pattaya and charged with multiple paedophile offences. He had been on bail for about 10 months and was found dead at his home in Bang Lamung. The man had been under extreme pressure as he was released on bail over accusations of having sex with an underage boy and was expected to stand trial on May 29, police said.
The second paedophile found the taste of freedom to be bitter.
Steven Erik Prowler, also 57, was extradited after spending a year in a Thai jail, and now will face more charges back home in California. "Americans who sexually exploit children anywhere in the world" will not be spared, Ann Hurst, attache to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, said yesterday. The agency has been working with its law enforcement partners overseas to bring Americans who have committed child sex crimes to stand trial at home.
To send a message to the rest of the paedophile community, Prowler was yesterday deported and accompanied by ICE agents to the US. He will face charges of travelling with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and engaging in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places, she said. Both charges carry a maximum imprisonment term of 30 years each. The 57-year-old English teacher at Ramkhamhaeng University's Demonstration School had spent a year behind bars on charges of detaining and molesting minors. He was nabbed in May last year at his rented apartment in Bang Kapi district after having sex with two boys, aged 15 and 16. Police said Prowler admitted knowing the two boys for three or four years and paying them 250 baht each time they came over to offer sex services.
With the assistance of ICE agents, police found at the apartment hundreds of photographs of naked teenage boys taken by Prowler, who had lived in the kingdom for six years. Police also recovered handwritten accounts of sexual encounters with underage boys in Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Mexico and the US over the past 10 years."
250 baht a new low.