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**Uojeyak** · 09-22-2012, 03:36 AM

HI

she has been talking to girls grandfather to arrange payment as the father is too drunk and hot headed to talk too. she has gotten it down to 40,000 baht so far. and family is keeping stepson out of sight.
the threat of jail is mute as son is only 17

17 years of age? He can still go to prison all right (when he's 18 after juvenile detantion centre), no doubt about that.
However, since he's below the age of 18 the court have to take into account the lad's sense of reponsibility. If the court feels the lad knew exactly that what he was doing was wrong, then he could be punished with one half of the normal sentence. So, he can go down for 2-10 years incarceration.
This is clearly a case of 'he's over the age of consent and she ain't'

Or, as Richard rightly pointed out, Section 277 of the Criminal Code offers an escape route (totally opens the way to scamming wads of money). This now only applies to offenders between the age of 15-18.

09-22-2012, 03:36 AM	#11
Uojeyak Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 424 Senior Member	HI she has been talking to girls grandfather to arrange payment as the father is too drunk and hot headed to talk too. she has gotten it down to 40,000 baht so far. and family is keeping stepson out of sight. the threat of jail is mute as son is only 17 17 years of age? He can still go to prison all right (when he's 18 after juvenile detantion centre), no doubt about that. However, since he's below the age of 18 the court have to take into account the lad's sense of reponsibility. If the court feels the lad knew exactly that what he was doing was wrong, then he could be punished with one half of the normal sentence. So, he can go down for 2-10 years incarceration. This is clearly a case of 'he's over the age of consent and she ain't' Or, as Richard rightly pointed out, Section 277 of the Criminal Code offers an escape route (totally opens the way to scamming wads of money). This now only applies to offenders between the age of 15-18.
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