Security Guard Arrested for Luring Neighbor’s Child Into Prostitution; Facing Human Trafficking Charges

Circumstances: Through collaboration between Sub-division 4, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Division, and the International Protection Alliance (IPA), an offense was detected that may fall under human trafficking by seeking sexual benefit from child prostitution. Specifically, around February 2026, a public Facebook page was discovered, and within the group, there were discussions about finding school students to support, including the desire to purchase sexual services from students.

Upon investigation, it was found that a Facebook user account had posted a message in a manner suggesting they had previously purchased sexual services from children within that group, attached with a photo of himself hugging tightly a young girl believed to be under 18 years of age. Police officers therefore conducted an investigation until they learned the owner of the post was Mr. Khamron, who worked as a security guard at a dormitory of a famous university.

Later, the arresting police officers learned that Mr. Khamron used the social media platform X, which was a private account, to post the message: “Currently available from 12:00 – 17:00 every day.” The arresting officers then had an undercover agent conduct a sting operation by contacting Mr. Khamron to purchase sexual services from a young girl, agreeing on a price of 1,500 baht for 2 hours, and scheduling a meeting at a curtain-style hotel in the Khlong Luang area, Pathum Thani Province, at approximately 3:30 PM.

Subsequently, the arresting officers and the undercover agent placed a force in hiding near the hotel. At 3:21 PM, it was found that Mr. Khamron had brought a young girl to sell sexual services, informing the undercover agent that he himself requested to stay in the room while the young girl engaged in intercourse with the undercover agent.

Then, when the undercover agent transferred the money for the girl’s sexual services to Mr. Khamron, and the victimized girl showed signs of readiness to provide sexual services, the undercover agent gave the signal for officials to enter and arrest Mr. Khamron in the room, while providing assistance to the victimized girl. He was informed of the charges, and the suspect was arrested along with the evidence and sent to the inquiry officials of Sub-division 4, ATPD, for further legal proceedings.

The suspect confessed that he knew the young girl because they lived in nearby houses. He had become friendly and invited her to work part-time after school to earn money for tuition, and then forced the victim to sell sexual services to customers the suspect contacted online, which is considered seeking benefit from child prostitution.