The scandal involving the former deputy leader of a political party accused of sex crimes against multiple women and the child human trafficking case in Surat Thani province in which a suspect is a local politician’s son share one distinct similarity — both men have faced similar accusations in the past. The implication is, of course, that a combination of Thailand’s justice system and social values continue to put sex-crime survivors at a disadvantage in more than one way. Let’s start with reporting. Patriarchal values that shame women with sexual experience, regardless of whether consent was…

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