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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Exactly.......BS
Send him to whichever country will execute him most slowly and painfully.
I thought he was not placed in the general population. ??
Wife looking over my shoulder thinks the Thai girls are likely dead. Sex trade mafias are strong.
Killing is a solitary thing but international sex trafficking would take connections that I doubt he had. Maybe he had begun to do that and he was really bad at it and got caught early, thank goodness.
There is a taped phone conversation in Dutch where he says to his father that he just wanted to tell them what happened to Natlie and his father reminds him that he can’t because of he needed to think of them.I think his father being a judge may have had a lot to do with this?
He wasn’t, and isn’t. I read the website of the Peruvian newspaper, El Commercio, which is the most reliable, and a couple of the TV stations. They are keeping him pristine until after his trial, is what I assume. And the sicario in the next cell, who someone above suggested is raping him, is about half his size.
sicario? Que?
How about Iran where they bury you up to your neck and throw stones at your exposed head, stones just large enough to cause pain, but not kill you right away.
Whoops, I forgot, they only do that to adulterous women.
He’s a freaking one man crime wave. And he’s what, like 24 years old? Messed up.
A killer; specifically, a shooter.
Poetic justice. Locked up in a hellhole for the rest of your life on the receiving end of unwanted attention.
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