Thai police arrested a renowned American TikToker and English language teacher in Bangkok for sexually assaulting a 16 year outdated Thai girl who’s a pupil of his.
A Thai lady complained at Khlongtan Police Station that her 16 year previous daughter engaged in a sexual relationship with her American teacher, Luke Nathanael Rockwell, after assembly one another five months in the past.
The mother additionally added that the trainer recorded a video of him having sex along with her daughter. She added that she is apprehensive the teacher might share the video on social media.
Officers managed to arrest the American suspect on Sukhumvit Road within the Wattana district of Bangkok at 11am yesterday.
The man acknowledged the accusation, leading him to face a charge according to Section 319 of the Criminal Law of taking away kids aged over 15 but less than 18 years outdated from their mother and father or guardians for sexual purposes. The penalty shall be imprisonment for two to 10 years and a nice of 40,000 to one hundred,000 baht.
Aside from teaching English language to Thai kids, Rockwell can also be well-known on the Thai TikTok platform. He shared videos of himself instructing English on the platform and has over 1.three million followers on his account, @teacherlukeacamedy. Rockwell’s TikTok account was set to private after the arrest.
According to the news shared on TikTok, the sixteen year old woman allegedly suffers from gonorrhoea after having intercourse with the American man. This data has not but been confirmed by the police or the victim’s mom.
The Thaiger previously reported one other sexual assault by a teacher on his Thai college students three days previous to this news. In Child’s play , a Thai high school bodily education instructor was arrested in the northern province of Chaing Mai for allegedly producing pornographic content material featuring his male students.
Four weeks ago, the police in the Isaan province of Chaiyaphum arrested a pedo teacher who sexually assaulted more than 10 college students beneath the age of 15. He even married one of the students he assaulted and later divorced her..