Monday, 29 April 2013

Unbelievable!!!!! Man, 93, carried into court for allegedly raping 4 sisters

A 93-year-old Australian, Karl Joseph Kraus, accused of
raping four sisters while living in South-East Asia, appeared
in court, in Thailand, on Monday.
According to charges against him, Kraus, who now finds it
difficult to walk on his own, was alleged to have attacked the
girls, aged between seven and 15, in 2010.
He was carried from a prison bus into a wheelchair by other
inmates, in order to be wheeled into the dock in Chiang Mai
province, in the north of the country.
According to Mail Online, after being arrested and bailed on
suspicion of rape, Kraus attempted to flee to Burma, from
where he was deported for not having a valid visa.
Report said his lawyers were now trying to get the rape case
dropped, arguing that he was too ill to stand trial.
Last month, he told the Sydney Morning Telegraph, “I’ll be
dead before proceedings conclude,” adding that “I’ve done
nothing wrong.”
Kraus, a German-born Australian citizen, is suffering from an
array of serious illnesses such as dementia and cancer,
according to his lawyers.
However, while free on bail he was apparently seen driving
around Chiang Mai and did not seem to be in poor health.
The former railway worker had been living in Thailand for
more than a decade when he first met the girls he was alleged
to have abused in 2008.
Thai police claimed that Kraus offered to teach the children
English, and persuaded them to visit his house by offering
them chocolate and money.
But the girls then told their parents, who, in turn, reported
Kraus to the police.
Officials allegedly found more than 100 child pornography
images on his computer, many of which had been emailed to
addresses based outside Thailand.
However, Kraus later claimed that he was told the case would
be dropped if he agreed to bribe police with a sum equivalent
to £10,000.

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