Illegal CD's getting sold on Bangkok's Main Tourist Streets

After the story in Bangkok Post, that Child Porn DVD's are sold openly on Sukhumvit, a very reliable source, @RichardBarrows visited yesterday Sukhumvit and confirmed that still Child Porn DVD were openly displayed and sold, despite an announcement of the police to move in and clear it up.

Today @KristoferA and the Cat decided to check it out for ourselves. We dressed up as tourists and hid an iPhone to function as a hidden camera. We did not see any Child Porn openly displayed, the sellers probably had by now all received the warning (by the police?) to hide their goods. But at the second stall, after viewing "normal" porn DVD's, we asked the seller if he wouldn't have some movies with younger girls. He disappeared for a few minutes behind a neighboring stall and came back with a big plastic bag. When he put it on the table it contained about 50 different movies with covers showing young girls with an age between 10 to 15 years. None of the movies were in a plastic cover and of every different movie there were about 3 to 5 copies. They were probably just freshly copied. When I pointed that out, the seller, just said: No problem, I give plastic cover!

@KristoferA pointed to me that there was a problem with the camera, so we did not get any record. But two stalls further, we managed to capture the video below

After the article in the Bangkok Post and the "crackdown" as announced by Pol Maj Gen Anuchai Lekbamrung the usual had happened: NOTHING

The sale of Child Porn DVDs moved from being displayed in the open as witnessed yesterday by @RichardBarrows to the hidden and is now sold out of plastic bags which are hidden behind the stalls or in back alleys just off Sukhumvit. Nothing has changed at all and probably nothing will. No "gang" will be arrested, no "influential person" who keeps the porn business running will be arrested. Maybe we will see in the next days a few pictures in newspapers of street vendors getting arrested with a smiling Police officer posing beside them, smiling not because they managed to eradicate a crime, but smiling because they know that the day after it gonna be business as usual.

Children will be forced, tortured and abused, used as sex objects to make more movies and to make more money.

Everyone one will earn: the parents who sell their children for sex, the producers of those horrible movies, the influential person behind, who allows this business to go on, the police who overlooks that a few copies are sold, the street vendors and probably even the tourists, who got their very special souvenir from Thailand.




Who pays the Price?



Just a few kids, whose life got destroyed forever.



Nothing can be changed.

Nothing will be changed.

Things are as they are.




Amazing Thailand.

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