Posted on 07/19/2010 8:12:03 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch native charged with killing a Peruvian woman and extorting money from the mother of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, may have even more legal problems ahead.
Earlier this month, the National Enquirer reported on van der Sloot's alleged involvement in sex trafficking in Thailand. Now Peru's minister of justice has confirmed that Thai authorities are pursuing criminal charges against van der Sloot, according to CBS News.
AP Thai authorities are pursuing criminal charges against Joran van der Sloot for his alleged involvement with sex trafficking in the country, officials say. Holloway, an 18-year-old from Alabama, disappeared on a trip to Aruba in 2005. She was last seen leaving a nightclub with van der Sloot, who was then living in Aruba. Following Holloway's disappearance, van der Sloot reportedly traveled to Bangkok, where he posed as a modeling agency consultant, the tabloid reports.
Some of the girls he allegedly approached have disappeared and have never been found, according to the Enquirer.
Though cautioning that it's only supposition until Thai authorities finish their investigation, Harold Copus -- a former FBI agent who was once hired to investigate the Holloway case by the "Dr. Phil" show -- said van der Sloot is believed to have been a middle man.
"In the sex slave industry, the middle man would get a fee for getting the girls and moving them around," said Copus, now head of Copus Security Consultants in Atlanta.
During his own investigation in Aruba, Copus heard rumors that "girls were taken out of Aruba to be used in the sex trade," he said. "There was supposedly a guy from Chicago there, a reputed mobster, who has been quoted as saying that a good [sex slave] is worth a quarter of a million dollars."
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This case has really taken a strange turn.
I think many of those following this case have suspected this all along.
Send to whichever country will execute him first.
Find out what he knows first, than execute him.
Who has the worst prisons, Peru or Thailand???
A red herring, in my humble opinion. Just now, this ‘sex trafficking’ episode comes up? Sounds bogus to me.
This guy deserves to be skinned alive. I suspected this from the first. She may still be alive. In what conditioned though...
I was in Aruba shortly after this happened-the Arubans were mystified by all of these theories. They were very convincing that Holloway was taken to Venezuela by boat. One or two conversations-OK, maybe just some wild theory. However, it was universal.
From the very start, something in the back of my mind suspected the girl who vanished with him in Aruba was sold by VDS.
Not sure I’m convinced yet, that’s not what happened.
I’m with you....”Journalism” run amok.
If it helps, the Columbian assassin who is Van Der Sloot's neighbor violates him on a nightly basis from what I have read.
I think he was awful young to already have been involved in a world wide sex slave operation. Not that he wouldn’t have done it eventually.
People in Peruvian prisons dream about escaping to Turkish prisons, it's that bad. While I'm sure Thailand isn't pleasant, Peru literally has some of the worst prisons on the face of the earth.
Perhaps, and perhaps it was "a family business", so to speak...
the infowarrior
Thailand has the death penalty but Peru likely is worse — tortured to death.
Ted Bundy is suspected of killing his first victim when he was in his teens...
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