CHIANG RAI: An assistant village head has been charged with dismembering his mother in a fit of anger after she threatened to tell police he had raped his teenaged daughter. Investigators said that the 35-year-old assistant head of Hua Wiang village in Wiang Pa Pao district confessed the crime to the village head on Friday and asked him to contact police. The names of the man and his mother have been withheld to protect the identity of the young rape victim. The officers later took him for a re-enactment of the crime at his house. He said nothing at the time, but later broke his silence and told the village head what had happened.

Source: Bangkok Post February 28, 2020 12:00 UTC