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Save our children from sexual abuse
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Editorial Bangkok Post editorial column
published : 21 Feb 2021 at 04:00
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If you were ever on the fence about whether it s right to subject a young child to modelling, then the recent raid on the Nene modelling agency where a trove of child pornography was found by law enforcement will undoubtedly have made your views on this matter clear.
The worst possible thing that could have happened to a child put in a situation where they were forced to be in front of a camera with a stranger, allegedly happened, right under everyone s noses, thousands of times. Just at this one agency. The chilling question is: How many more children may have been subjected to this kind of abuse?
Danudetch Nene Saengkaew, 28, was arrested in Thailand on February 11
The Thai national has been charged with numerous child sex abuse offences
Thai police say they seized more than half a million files of child abuse material
He ran Nene Modelling, a top agency which worked with advertising firms
Thai authorities said his victims were male minors aged between six to 15
DSI takes up Nene case
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published : 17 Feb 2021 at 07:19
2 Clothes and other evidence are displayed at a press conference held by the Department of Special Investigation to announce the arrest of the owner of a popular modelling agency for child pornography and sexual abuse. (Photo by Apichit Jinakul)
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) on Tuesday accepted for investigation a child pornography and sexual abuse case involving the popular Nene modelling agency.
DSI director-general Korrawat Panpraphakorn said on Tuesday the department has taken up for special investigation the child sexual abuse case against Danudetch Saengkaew, who ran the modelling agency.
Mr Danudetch was arrested last Thursday for allegedly producing and distributing child pornography with over 500,000 obscene photos stocked in computers at his modelling agency in Pathum Thani. Police also believed some of the children photographed were sexu