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Thailand has built a strong legal system to tackle sexual assault, sexual exploitation, and related cybercrimes. This shows its commitment to fighting violence against women. The legal landscape includes numerous laws that protect victims and ensure serious consequences for offenders. Some of these laws focus on modern digital threats and technology abuse. Core Sexual Assault Provisions Under Thai Criminal Law<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last reviewed: 3 September 2026.<\/strong> Two things were checked here and both were wrong. The penalty for Section 277<\/strong>, sexual intercourse with a child not over fifteen, was given as 4 to 20 years, in the text and again in the table; the Code says 5 to 20 years<\/strong> with a fine<\/a> of 100,000 to 400,000 baht, and the 13-or-under paragraph also allows life imprisonment. And the page carried nothing on the Criminal Code Amendment Act (No. 30) B.E. 2568<\/strong>, in force 30 December 2025, which created the sexual-harassment offence at Section 284\/1<\/strong>; that is now in the table. Checked against the Act as published in the Royal Gazette (vol. 142 part 90 Kor, 29 December 2025) and against our own annotated Penal Code. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewed again on 8 September 2026<\/strong>, on the three figures the September review left open. Section 276<\/strong> was checked and is correct as printed, at 4 to 20 years with a fine of 80,000 to 400,000 baht. The other two were wrong. The weapons and gang-rape aggravation was credited to Section 285<\/strong>; it is Section 276 paragraph three<\/strong>, and Section 285 is the separate one-third increase where the victim is a relative or is otherwise under the offender’s power. The child-pornography row and the paragraph below it both cited Section 287<\/strong>, whose penalty is up to three years or a fine of up to 60,000 baht; the 3 to 10 year band with a 60,000 to 200,000 baht fine that both printed is Section 287\/2<\/strong>, where the prison term and the fine are both mandatory. Section 281<\/strong> was also stated backwards, as a bar on settlement turning on marriage; it is the provision that lists which offences here may be compounded<\/a>, and the conditions are narrower than marriage alone. Every figure above was read from our own annotated Penal Code, sections 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 284\/1, 284\/2, 285, 285\/2, 287, 287\/1 and 287\/2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still not checked against a primary source<\/strong>, said rather than implied: Section 277 ter<\/strong>, which is not in our annotated Code, the Computer Crime Act figures, the trafficking and child-protection passages, the claim that a 2022 amendment extended the definitions to AI-generated material, and the enforcement and procedure sections. Re-read on 5 October 2026: the grievous-harm and death penalties are Section 277 bis, read in our annotated Code with Section 277 ter; the claim about AI-generated material was removed because the Amendment Act it cited (No. 28 B.E. 2564) is the abortion amendment; an unsourced 2023 Computer Crime Act amendment and an OSCC AI claim were removed; the table no longer says ignorance of the child’s age is irrelevant (Section 59 paragraph three).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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