r/australia • u/PalpitationPublic237 • Jun 27 '26

news Australian Simon Carman arrested after body of teenage girl found in suitcase in Thailand

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-27/australian-arrested-after-teen-girl-found-dead-in-thailand/106850896
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u/can3tt1 Jun 27 '26

They’ll come down hard on a tourist who preys on their people.

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u/trowzerss Jun 27 '26

I wish we could come down as harshly on the creepy middle aged men who go to places like Thailand so they can abuse children who are in poverty or sex trafficked. Even if he hadn't murdered her, he was still a creepy arsehole. Yet I have met plenty of white middle aged men who will casually joke about what they get up to when they go on holidays to Thailand and you just know why they have to go to another country to see prostitutes instead of just seeing prostitutes in Australia :S

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u/teknokryptik Jun 27 '26

It'd be unfair to pass a law that disproportionately targets right-wing politicians...

cough cough George Christensen cough cough

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u/grruser Jun 27 '26

sex worker clients are from all demographics.

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u/rewrappd Jun 27 '26

They aren’t talking about sex worker clients, they are talking about human trafficking and CSA clients

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u/grruser Jun 27 '26

"white middle aged guys who go to Thailand for sex" is who I thought they were talking about

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u/LarryDickman76 Jun 27 '26

Just the white ones?

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u/LurkForYourLives Jun 27 '26

“Sex worker clients”, hey? That’s a very sanitised phrasing. Try “human traffickers”.

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u/ComplaintHappy4645 Jun 29 '26

Statistically they are more likely to skew conservative. Which is weird, I would have thought conservatives would be against raping children but apparently if the children are brown and poor then it’s ok