Rapist of Ang Thong girl, 9, arrested in Phetchabun

Police have arrested a 37 year old man wanted for the rape of a nine year old girl in Ang Thong province.

Hussan (or Lek) Rungrot was apprehended yesterday as he was looking for work in Phetchabun province reported Thairath. The mother of the child had earlier appealed to the government’s Damrontham help centre after the investigation into her daughter’s rape had stalled. The child suffers from attention deficit disorder.

Hussan was charged with rape of a child under 13 and abduction of a person under 15.

Hussan admitted the crime of rape but said that he did it only once at the home of the child and did not take her to his house and rape her multiple times as the child has claimed.

He was taken to the scene of crime by a contingent of soldiers and police for a reenactment but after a threatening lynching mob gathered he was hurried away.

Thai Visa / Thairath 

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