Quote:Paedophile suspect dead in suicide

(dpa) - A German national charged with raping a minor in Thailand was found dead in his prison cell in what was believed to be a suicide, police said Thursday.

The body of Helmut Nehls, 64, was found Wednesday at a prison in the northeastern city of Udon Thani with his wrists slashed and a sock stuffed down his throat, police Captain Jirapong Singhasuriya said.

He was believed to have died from suffocation, rather than loss of blood because the slashes to his wrists, inflicted with the jagged edge of a toilet bowl, were not deep, police said.

"We are sure this was a suicide because no one could get in to his cell, and the key to his cell was with the supervisor, not the lower officers," Jirapong said.

"Nehls had requested a solitary cell because he was suffering stress and was being bothered by the other prisoners," Jirapong added in a telephone interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Thai police arrested Nehls, who is from Zeppernick in the eastern German state of Sachsen-Anhalt, on Feby 10 on charges of raping and abducting a minor. He was arrested in a rented house in Udon Thani, 450 kilometres north-east of Bangkok, with a 12-year-old girl.

Police found pornographic videos and a digital movie camera containing a clip of the young girl doing a strip tease.

If he had been found guilty of raping a minor, Nehls faced 10 to 20 years in prison.

Nehls, a former computer technician, had been visiting Thailand on a regular basis for the past 15 years and was fluent in the language, police said.

Source: Bangkok Post Feb. 15, 2007
http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news...?id=116818

Other reports also state that he paid the parents 85 Euro (4.000 THB)for a weekend with the children to make childporn movies. The whole scene sucked including the parents who knew what was happening.
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Wonder what`ll happen to the parents? Hopefully their children will be taken off them at the very least.

Taken off and what then? Raise in an orphanage - or with foster parents in Thailand?

The price they got from the guy just "renting" the kid for a weekend is just a little lower than what many used to accept for selling their kid to a brothel for life. It's never been rotted out completely. Where there is demand there are people finding ways to get rich by supplying . . .

A couple of terrible things have recently happened here in the UK within the past week which involve very young children.

A 2 year old girl was found raped and murdered by her mother in the girl`s own bedroom. The girl`s uncle has been charged with the crimes.

A video was taken by several women of a fight between a 2 year old boy in nappies and a 3 year old girl. This was in a house, and the women were shouting at the girl to hit the boy. The boy in turn was told to retaliate and hit the girl back in the face. The boy refused and buried his head in the chair. The policeman who had to sit through the video apparently had to keep stopping so sickening was the content of it. The women are all up on charges.