90—year—old Australian accused of raping 4 young sisters in
Thailand
Karl Joseph Kraus, 90—year—old Australian arrested and charged
with raping four sisters in Thailand
It's an offer they should have refused.
A 90—year—old Australian man was arrested and charged with raping
four young sisters whom he allegedly lured to his home in Thailand
with the promise of sweets and English lessons.
Karl Joseph Kraus was taken into custody Tuesday at his home near
the northern city of Chiang Mai. Cops found video footage and 100
photographs of naked children, some posing with the elderly
man.
Police are investigating if the sicko is part of a larger network
because many of the pictures were sent abroad. According to the
Bangkok Post, a maid hired by Kraus said she saw the geezer sending
homemade pornographic videos overseas.
One of the girls was 5 years old when the alleged rape took place.
The sisters are now 7 to 15 years old.
Parents of the girls observed they no longer wanted to play outside
and asked them what was wrong. After their gruesome discovery, they
immediately complained to police.
Kraus met the sisters in 2008 after he approached the girls' family
in 2008 and offered to teach them English.
"He would lure them into his house with sweets, usually chocolate
from abroad or luxury sweets and he would ask them to perform
sexual acts with him," Doi Saket police chief Kritapol Yeesakron
said. "For the eldest of the four sisters, he recently gave her
4,000 baht instead of sweets." The total is about $120.
According to the Bangkok Post, Kraus—who has lived in Thailand more
than a decade—once argued he was a victim of police extortion when
he was charged with rape in a previous case.
Kraus' Australian passport says he was born in Berlin. Kraus
declined to comment because he doesn't have a lawyer yet.
Neighbors described Kraus as an active senior citizen who still
drives his own car. But when cops showed up at his home, he acted
frail, walked with a cane and griped about his high blood pressure
and diabetes.
Kraus was taken to Chiang Mai hospital. His court date has not been
announced.
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