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    Thai model death ‘scandal’ casts spotlight on murky industry , A case for TD CSI

    Thai model death ‘scandal’ casts spotlight on murky industry
    ​A case for TD CSI



    The case has made front page news in Thailand and fueled speculation over what happened to the 25-year-old model

    Thai police investigating a model’s unexplained death were hunting for more suspects in a case that has captivated the country and sparked rare outrage over the treatment of women in a poorly understood sector of the entertainment industry.

    The body of model-for-hire Thitima Noraphanpiphat was found in the lobby of a Bangkok apartment block on September 17, hours after she attended a party where she was paid to serve drinks.

    Police are working to press charges against anyone tied to the “scandal” that led to the 25-year-old’s death, spokesman Krissana Pattanacharoen told AFP late Saturday.The case has made front page news in Thailand and fuelled speculation on social media over what happened to Thitima, who has nearly 85,000 followers on Instagram where many have posted “RIP” on her photos.
    The so-called “pretty” industry in Thailand hires promotional models to attend clubs, product launches and car shows.

    But critics say it exists in a legal grey area where women at VIP parties can be coerced into drugs, alcohol and sex.
    The models can earn around $100 and up for an evening’s work — a significant amount for college students.
    Police have already charged seven people connected to the party after CCTV footage went viral showing the main suspect dragging Thitima’s lifeless body into an elevator before dumping it on a couch in the lobby.

    The inquiry is widening as authorities hope the case will serve as a warning.
    “We have opened the investigation into all these people who got involved in this scandal as well, including the agency, the manager… and the customers who enjoyed the party,” Krissana said.

    “It just goes to show that if you cross the line this is what you will receive.”
    He said police had not released an official cause of death but that a “very high consumption rate of alcohol” was found in her body.
    The man believed to be in the CCTV footage also works in the entertainment industry and has been identified as model Rachadej Wongtabutr.
    He was charged this week with illegal detention leading to death after he allegedly took Thitima from the party to his condo and left her on the lobby couch.

    Authorities say he has denied wrongdoing.
    The six others were released on bail after a separate complaint from another woman hired for the party who said she blacked out and woke up with her clothes removed

    ARRESTS MADE OVER SEXUAL ABUSE OF THAI MODELS

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    I think murky is putting it lightly.

    Most "models" (and even faded celebs) are involved in a bit more than just modelling in Thailand.

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    for some background on pretties - turn the sound off


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    posh name is an ESCORT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    for some background on pretties - turn the sound off

    Not that anyone might notice but being Thailand the one thing they have in common aside from girlie bits, is white skin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by baldrick View Post
    for some background on pretties - turn the sound off

    Be thankful the Thais still like all this, and it is the norm in in the Kingdom.
    Go back to the West and all this is ridiculously very un PC.
    No boxing ring girls, no umbrella girls in F1, no..... the list is endless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
    Be thankful the Thais still like all this, and it is the norm in in the Kingdom.
    And girls get raped or murdered.

    Yeah, let's be thankful for that.


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    And girls get raped or murdered.
    it sounds as if you are blaming the girls?

    perhaps we should enshroud them in burqas and bin liners so that thai chickenheads dont get too excited and blamelessly assault them

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    Quote Originally Posted by jabir View Post
    Not that anyone might notice but being Thailand the one thing they have in common aside from girlie bits, is white skin.
    White skin, and nose, chin and breast implants. Seems like they roll off a production line somewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    perhaps we should enshroud them in burqas and bin liners so that thai chickenheads dont get too excited
    treating the symptoms and not the cause - how thai of you

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    Not OK anyone is killed or even murdered unless in self defense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by taxexile View Post
    it sounds as if you are blaming the girls?
    How on earth do you draw that absurd fucking conclusion based on the comment to which I was replying?

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    Isn`t there CCTV footage of some guy carrying her limp body through a hotel foyer? Is that where her dead body was found? Didn`t the guy brag about shagging her before he carried her limp body out of his room? Why isn`t there a photo of that guy with fingers pointing towards him?

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    How on earth do you draw that absurd fucking conclusion based on the comment to which I was replying?
    "And girls get raped or murdered.

    Yeah, let's be thankful for that."

    Because you assume promotional girls, FI umbrella girls, pretties, even escorts, et al should not be there doing a job, because it leads to rape & murder.
    Ditto, basically, don't go out dancing in a night club with a short skirt or a skimpy top. Because you're begging for it.
    Your reasoning is unsound and quasi Catholic/Victorian...
    And go and ask the promotional girls in the West who lost their jobs, they ALL wanted to do that job, a well paid job, but the PC Jobsworth's said no, it's demeaning....

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
    "And girls get raped or murdered.

    Yeah, let's be thankful for that."

    Because you assume promotional girls, FI umbrella girls, pretties, even escorts, et al should not be there doing a job, because it leads to rape & murder.
    Ditto, basically, don't go out dancing in a night club with a short skirt or a skimpy top. Because you're begging for it.
    Your reasoning is unsound and quasi Catholic/Victorian...
    And go and ask the promotional girls in the West who lost their jobs, they ALL wanted to do that job, a well paid job, but the PC Jobsworth's said no, it's demeaning....
    well ur ignorance is unbelievable. while ur opinion is coming from the right quarter, u totally ignore human nature, which is some men, and in my opinion, to many men, have no respect for women, hence their selfish abuse of a woman that puts herself on the slab as it were.

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    It is a sad fact of life that the strong prey on the weak. There will always be men that do this simply because they can. Women in general are physically weaker and therefore the easiest target to use and exploit.

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    "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

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    Quote Originally Posted by thaiguzzi View Post
    "And girls get raped or murdered.

    Yeah, let's be thankful for that."

    Because you assume promotional girls, FI umbrella girls, pretties, even escorts, et al should not be there doing a job, because it leads to rape & murder.
    Ditto, basically, don't go out dancing in a night club with a short skirt or a skimpy top. Because you're begging for it.
    Your reasoning is unsound and quasi Catholic/Victorian...
    And go and ask the promotional girls in the West who lost their jobs, they ALL wanted to do that job, a well paid job, but the PC Jobsworth's said no, it's demeaning....
    The only people that still want to see girls with their tits or knickers hanging out are sad old onanists like yourself.

    Or rapists like the ones that murdered this girl.

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    From what was explained to me the girl had engaged in a "drinking game" at the party, and obviously went way over her tolerance limit. There is footage of the guy dragging her limp form out of the house and to his building (presumably different cameras?). He left her on the lobby sofa, and apparently went upstairs to sleep (just checked all that is in OP).

    Currently, they are trying to decide the exact time of her death (!), as that determines which police station gets jurisdiction over the case.

    Given that she actively partook in the drinking game it seems kind of murky to me as to what he can or should be charged with. People are wondering why he did not call her friend/s to come take care of her, so possibly "abducting her" without her consent? Negligence as he apparently went past a hospital on the way to his condo? I am not 100% sure why he was still fit to drive, and not clear whether he was part of the drinking game or not.

    I suppose whichever way it ends up, the only conclusion is a sad loss of a young life.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    From what was explained to me the girl had engaged in a "drinking game" at the party, and obviously went way over her tolerance limit. There is footage of the guy dragging her limp form out of the house and to his building (presumably different cameras?). He left her on the lobby sofa, and apparently went upstairs to sleep (just checked all that is in OP).

    Currently, they are trying to decide the exact time of her death (!), as that determines which police station gets jurisdiction over the case.

    Given that she actively partook in the drinking game it seems kind of murky to me as to what he can or should be charged with. People are wondering why he did not call her friend/s to come take care of her, so possibly "abducting her" without her consent? Negligence as he apparently went past a hospital on the way to his condo? I am not 100% sure why he was still fit to drive, and not clear whether he was part of the drinking game or not.

    I suppose whichever way it ends up, the only conclusion is a sad loss of a young life.
    A nice cake tin will ensure that it was an accidental death and it was all her fault.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hugh Cow View Post
    It is a sad fact of life that the strong prey on the weak. There will always be men that do this simply because they can. Women in general are physically weaker and therefore the easiest target to use and exploit.
    True, but sexist in some parts of our mad world.

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    my understanding of the story is somewhat different from above....

    yes, the girl got shit-faced at the 'party', but the guy who took her home was an underling who was working there and just did what he was told....and what he was told was to get her out of there because she was shit-faced.

    the guy didn't know what to do with her so he took to his place and he left her passed out in the lobby of his building and went up to his apartment. apparently there are line messages between the owners of the spot where the 'party' took place and the guy with them looking for updates on how she's doing.

    it seems clear that nobody expected her to die, but now that's she dead, it looks like the law is going to come down on the low man on the totem pole. essentially, he's a patsy.

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    You could almost believe that he were taking an unconscious girl to his condo to put her to bed for the night and take care of her, but the fact that he then went down and dumped her - probably lifeless - body on a lobby sofa suggests it wasn't that.

    I don't suppose they've even thought of checking his smartphone, camera, etc. There's no mention of it and they're too stupid not to gloat about all their proper-cop-like exploits. Or they all got a tidy sum to fuck it up.

    Security camera footage from the night appeared to show Rachadech entering his condominium building with what appears to be an unconscious woman and taking her up to his room on the sixth floor. Hours later footage allegedly captured Rachadech carrying the woman back into the lobby and placing her on a sofa.

    Suspicion was raised further when, soon after finding her body, police said they had to break into Rachadech's room as he would not open the door.

    A preliminary autopsy report released last week showed that the woman died from "extreme alcohol intoxication," Suthipong said. The findings showed she had a blood alcohol concentration of 418 milligrams per 100 milliliters.


    There was also speculation that Thitima has been drugged and sexually assaulted though the autopsy found no evidence of drugs in her system nor evidence of assault, according to Suthipong.


    Focus in the case has been on the time of death, which medical examiners have given a four-hour window on September 16, between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Police have even considered the biometric data on her smartwatch to determine when she died, though the data is unlikely to be counted as evidence.


    An attorney working for Thitima's family told CNN that they are waiting for a new autopsy to be completed on October 2 as they believe her death was suspicious.


    "Right now the problem is all about timing issues," said Pongsa Ratri, adding that they will wait for the fresh forensic reports before deciding how to proceed with the case.

    https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/27/asia/thailand-model-death-investigation-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

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    - And -

    Police have arrested a male model accused of taking an unconscious woman home, boasting online about his sexual exploits, and leaving her lifeless body in the lobby of his building.

    https://www.news.com.au/world/asia/m...e053ac8683e8e5



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    ^ yes, that is the point that is not being discussed. he bragged about taking her to his room and shagging her whilst she was out cold - perhaps dead!

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