Yankee pedo arrested in Pattaya !

Kindergarten teacher arrested

An American kindergarten teacher was arrested in the early hours
yesterday while allegedly engaged in sex with a 16-year-old Thai boy in
this resort city, police said yesterday.

Following tourist complaints that the Diamond Blue Sky Bar in South
Pattaya had boys as sex workers, undercover police checked the place at
about 12.30am and found Thai boys aged 11 to 17 on the gay bar's ground
floor, said Tourist Police inspector Lt-Colonel Wutthichart Luansukhon.

On the second floor, which is divided into small rooms, police
allegedly found US citizen Ronald D Sims, 44, a kindergarten teacher
from Kansas, having sex with the boy in one of the rooms, Wutthichart
said. Police took them together with bar manager Jare Rathum, 27, and
some 20 other boys to the Tourist Police station, he said.

Jare confessed that the bar had been in business for a long time with
many local boys coming in and out to sell sex to foreign tourists, for
which they were paid a salary of Bt15,000, police said.

Jare also allegedly said Sims was a customer paying the boy Bt500 to
perform a sexual service.

Police charged Jare with running an establishment with persons aged
under 18 and soliciting underage boys for prostitution, while Sims was
charged with engaging in a lewd act with a person over 15 but not over
18, even though it was consensual.

Wutthichart said police had been assigned to crack down on foreigners
committing sex crimes against children, youths and women in the
precinct.

An investigation found that Sims, who had been in Pattaya for two
weeks, was frequenting the bar, so police had been shadowing him and
followed him to make the arrest.

The Nation

Pattaya