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Sex offender arrested for rape, death of 8-year-old girl

Anuwat Pholjapor, left, is interrogated by Lt Gen Panurat Lakboon, the Provincial Police Region 3 commissioner, after his arrest on a charge of raping and killing an 8-year-old girl in Nakhon Ratchasima, on Thursday night. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: A man fleeing an arrest warrant on a charge of raping an 8-year-old girl and killing her in a field in Pak Thong Chai district on Wednesday night was apprehended on Thursday evening.

The suspect had earlier been jailed for four years for child sexual abuse and was released from jail only three months ago, according to Thai media reports.

The young victim’s mother called for the death penalty.

Anuwat Pholjapor, 24, was arrested behind his house at Mab Chuek village in tambon Thongchai Nua shortly after emerging from a hideout in the nearby…

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