THAILAND

Child sex case dropped, but a life still left in ruins

Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 11/10/2015

» On June 8 last year, the life that American engineer Christopher Lee Hobbs had been building for himself and his family came tumbling down. The 56-year-old was arrested in Pattaya on six counts of molesting two underage boys — a Thai and a Cambodian — and faced the prospect of 42 years in prison.