
The court acquitted Pol Sr SgtMajor Phajon Takonewon after the girl testified she was not positive whether he was one of the two other men involved in the assault. Working undercover as plainclothes detectives, the three defendants kept the girl in custody for nine days before her mother found out that she had been arrested.
The judges dismissed Nulome and Mongkhol's claims that the girl had invented the story as revenge for previous disputes between her mother and other Phet Kasem policemen, calling them unconvincing and groundless.