The Fifth Region Police’s Thailand Internet Crimes Against Children (TICAC) has announced that it has arrested a 22 year old man caught in possession of child pornography.
He is being accused of being in possession of child pornography with intent to distribute.
The man is accused of using the Twitter platform to sell child pornography of both sexes. Police say that he is a third year student of a famous university here in Chiang Mai and was arrested in his residence in Suthep Sub-district.
He told police that he himself had bought the images off a provider on Twitter who sold them for 20 baht each, buying in bulk. He would then sell them on for 200 baht each in order to, “supplement his income”.
Police say that they have evidence that he had been selling such images since 2019 and there have been vast numbers of images circulated and sold by him. Investigations will continue.