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[TheYenta]

"The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced a bank worker to a year's suspended jail term and 12 hours of community service for tarnishing the reputation of a 29-year-old woman by posting an obscene message about her along with her phone number at the Sanook.com website.

After apologising to the victim before the verdict was read, 31-year-old Nawanit Noichana said he had no intention of tarnishing the reputation of this woman, whom he doesn't know, and promised never to do it again.He also said he would give her Bt5,000 in compensation.

According to the lawsuit, on November 2, 2008, the defendant posted a message about the woman seeking sexual experiences along with her mobile phone number, without the victim's knowledge or consent. The victim told the court that she learned about the message from her friends and immediately filed a police complaint. The message had been running on the website for three hours before Nawanit was identified as the wrongdoer. Later, the victim said she had forgiven him and asked him not to do it again.

The court found the defendant guilty of filing false information on cyberspace that caused damage to another person or the public, which is punishable to six months in jail and Bt5,000 in fine.

Since his confession was useful, the court cut the sentence by half and, since this was his first offence and because he had apologised to the victim, the court eventually sentenced him to a year's suspended jail term and 12 hours of community service."

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2009/08/10...al_30109501.php