News Forum - Police crack down on Cambodian beggars with children in Pattaya

[Thaiger]

Police are looking into the case of at least two alleged Cambodian beggars in Pattaya who reportedly used minors to solicit money from tourists, according to reports from concerned witnesses. Officers and officials searched a night venue in Chon Buri’s Nong Prue District and found a Cambodian woman with a boy there. The team also found many flowers which they suspect she was peddling to tourists. The woman reportedly admitted that she had crossed into Thailand illegally, and had come to Pattaya to look for work. The team also found another Cambodian woman with three children who were between two […]

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[joseph]

Watch them pinch the babies to make them cry on que.  

[23RD]

I've watched this for many years in Pattaya were these kids are used as prop's by beggers. 

It's child abuse to use these children having them sat in the hot sun and extreme heat for hours on end I've many times walked into the nearest 7/11 of Family Mart to buy some milk ,juice or water for the kids but their not interested in it they just want money. 

Similar to organised begging in my native Swansea (if you keep giving they'll keep begging).

Also a mention of all the children walking around the open aired Beer Bars in Pattaya at all hours of night selling chewing gum.

I'd tell anyone visiting Pattaya if their feeling generous jump on a motorbike taxi to The Father Ray Foundation on Sukhumvit Road and make a donation and you know your money is being put to good use.

[Giltee]

31 minutes ago, joseph said:

Watch them pinch the babies to make them cry on que.  

that’s if they’re even their babies

[ChrisS]

Not just Pattaya but anywhere particularly where there are a lot of tourists. Like most things easy to fix but the Thai police can't be bothered.

[Guest1]

2 hours ago, Thaiger said:

according to reports from concerned witnesses

These "concerned witnesses", are that by any chance the Thai fathers and mothers from the Thai flower- or chewing-gum girls, who fear about the income of their families? 'cause it seems strange that RTP is promptly acting on Cambodian parents, but if local minors running around, in bar areas in the night, with flowers/gum, look the other way?

[palooka]

54 minutes ago, ChrisS said:

Not just Pattaya but anywhere particularly where there are a lot of tourists. Like most things easy to fix but the Thai police can't be bothered.

Heck imagine the paper work the poor RTP would have go through to get rid of these people, no wonder "they let it go"

[Marc26]

54 minutes ago, Guest1 said:

These "concerned witnesses", are that by any chance the Thai fathers and mothers from the Thai flower- or chewing-gum girls, who fear about the income of their families? 'cause it seems strange that RTP is promptly acting on Cambodian parents, but if local minors running around, in bar areas in the night, with flowers/gum, look the other way?

A lot of those kids are Burmese, not Thai

[Guest1]

2 hours ago, Marc26 said:

A lot of those kids are Burmese, not Thai

But a lot of the "parents" (the persons carrying them on the motorcycle) aren't!

[ChrisS]

These kids running around the bar areas selling flowers and chewing gum etc are part of a criminal gang I wandered down an alley in Hua Hin once and saw them all getting out of a van and being briefed for their nights activity incidentally one of Thailands finest also came by when this was happening and kept going right on by. Paid off or just too lazy?