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 BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - It's a photo that has become a staple in the tabloids of Southeast Asia: the foreigner taken in by police after being caught in bed with a local boy or girl.
For many of the region's countries which derive huge sums of money from the tourism trade, it's a vivid illustration of its seamiest side — child sexual exploitation.
The spotlight was on Thailand Wednesday after a man suspected in the slaying of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was arrested here in a surprise breakthrough a decade-old U.S. case that some feared would never be solved.
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