CHIANG MAI, June 17 (TNA) – An American man was arrested and alleged to have committed paedophilia, or having engaged in sex, with an underage child in this northern Thai province, according to provincial tourist police.

Police found evidence that the man identified as W. W. H., 72, had sexually abused a ten-year-old female student at a local school in Chiang Mai’s provincial seat.

The girl told officials that she had been sexually molested several times by Mr Holley at a local guesthouse.

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