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Two young girls who say they were sexually assaulted by the same “Thai” masseur in a London salon have told their stories in the media, to encourage others to “find the strength” to report and contact the police.
Katy and Mollie, both in their 20s, were hailed by London police as ‘brave girls’ following the denunciation of masseur Mongkon Thopwan, who was recently sentenced to 11 years in prison.
He was convicted last month on five counts of ‘intimate penetration’ and one case of engaging in sexual activity without the person’s admission.
Speaking to the British daily Metro.co.uk before the Isleworth court sentencing, Katy and Mollie – whose names have been changed to protect their identities, said they did not know each other before but someone else who had gone through the same experience introduced them.
The women described what happened to them at the “frequented” Thai Massage Nine Lucksa massage center in the West Kensington area of central London, calling it “extreme and inappropriate”.
“I went to this massage parlor two years before the incident and I had seen this person several times before,” said Katy.
She says that he did his “therapeutic” job well and in some massages the girl was very satisfied, but what happened to her afterwards was “completely unexpected”.
“Once upon a time – on the last visit – he did something strange to me that he had never done before, but not one that made me think ‘I will never come here again’.
“So I did not pay attention to this sense of intuition. “But now that I think about it, it was a meaningful signal.”
Katy had told her friends about the incident and this helped the police investigation, who had launched the investigation in November 2020.
There are no security cameras in the massage rooms so the police in the investigation had to rely on the story of the two women.
Neither Katy nor Mollie could go into the finer details of their experience, but police nevertheless considered the events ‘serious sexual assaults’.
Mollie says her ‘sense of intuition’ that Katy refers to is always there but often women are taught to ignore it ‘to some extent’.
“We as women are allowed to say or be offended by something by manipulation and sometimes we have to be numb or not think of a behavior that is not correct,” she explains.
The attack on Mollie occurred six months after that on Katy, in June last year while Thopwan was arrested and charged a day later.
Following his conditional release at the end of the year, municipal officials revoked his license.
His sentence came just a year later.
Offering for victims of manipulative sexual assault, Mollie says one should not be “catastrophic” with events as this can be dangerous.
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