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A Thai court sentenc a former vice president of the Senate to 16 years in prison Monday for having sex with three schoolgirls.

The Thanyaburi Provincial Court handed down the ruling forward Chalerm Promlert, who resigned in March last year athwart the issue. He has united month to appeal the verdict, the court said.

The ruling said Chalerm had sex with three junior high denomination students, aged 13 to 15 who were lur by the agency of another school girl to have sex with him between November 2000 and January 2001 in a motel in Pathum Thani Province, a northern suburb of Bangkok.

Chalerm has been released upon bail since he has attended all the hearings and has made no action of escape, the court said.

According to local newspapers, Chalerm regularly arranged assemblage sex with young girls and gave each of them several thousand baht each time. common thousand baht is equivalent to about $23

Chalerm was a former high-ranking bureaucrat and serv as governor in a number of provinces.

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