The state rail operator has given the family of a teen girl raped and killed aboard one of its trains by one of its employees last year THB8.5 million compensation.
The State Railway of Thailand paid the mother of the 13-year-old girl, who was assaulted while she slept during the night on a Bangkok-bound train in July, 2014, a little more than half of the THB15 million the family had asked for, according to The Nation.
For raping a minor and throwing her body off the train, railway employee Wanchai Saengkao was eventually convicted and sentenced to die. The railway employee was arrested soon after the murder and confessed to pushing her out a window of the moving train somewhere in Prachuap Khiri Khan province. Then 22, he was convicted of murder, rape of a minor under 15, theft, concealing a dead body and drug use. Another rail worker Nattakorn Chamnarn, 19, was given a six-year jail term as an accomplice in the crime.
It was the second payout by the railway in recent months over a passenger assault.
In November, the Supreme Court ordered it to finally make good on compensation long-promised to another woman raped by a railway employee 14 years ago. The court ordered a settlement of THB5.2 million in that case.
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