Thai sergeant with HIV arrested over accusations he raped dozens of mostly teenage boys
- The 43-year-old soldier in Khon Kaen province used a false profile on a gay dating app to lure the alleged victims to meet him, say police
An HIV-infected Thai sergeant major has been arrested and charged with raping an estimated 75 mostly teenage boys after luring them to meet him in the northeast of the country.
The 43-year-old soldier in Khon Kaen province used a false profile on a gay dating app to invite the alleged victims – who ranged in age from 13 to 18 – to meet him, said Surachate Hakparn, deputy head of the technology crime task force.
Surachate said the teenagers had been cajoled into sharing revealing photos of themselves before arriving and then were blackmailed into having sex with the man once they were there and learned he was not the man in the profile.
“We have evidence that he raped the boys, about 75 of them,” he said Thursday, adding that the suspect was arrested and charged the day before.
“We have clear evidence of this and he confessed.”
The man had allegedly carried out the sexual assaults for four years and authorities were tipped off about the claims via a tip on the Facebook page of the technology crime task force.