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Recent News stories from around the world...May 30, 2008
Four Paedophiles Arrested in Thailand [+]
Source: pattayapeople.com
Pattaya Police arranged a Press conference on the afternoon of the 19th May to announce the capture and arrest of four foreigners staying in Pattaya for illegal sexual relationships with under age boys.
They are Christopher Dee from Canada; Michael Willy from USA; Michael Burns from England and Norburu Fukadu from Japan. All four will be sent to Bangkok where they will be blacklisted and then be deported back to their home countries.
May 14, 2008
German Paedophile Caught in Pattaya [+]
Source: pattayadailynews.com
Tourist Police Officers from Pattaya arrested a German National apparently caught
engaging in sexual activities with two boys. Tourist Police Detectives conducted a raid
in Pattaya and found Mr. Wolf-Rudiger Engelke aged 67 in a state of undress with Two
boys aged 15 and 13 who later confirmed that Mr. Engelke paid each of them 500 Baht for
sexual services. Evidence seized from the room included a Notebook containing explicit
pictures of underage boys. Mr. Engelke, is a member of the Rotary Club of Pattaya and
was in charge of the Polio Plus program, which provides immunization for children
against Polio, according to details found on their website. He is also a lecturer at the
School of Renewable Energy Technology at the Narasean University in Phitsanulok Province.
May 9, 2008
Global manhunt nets child abuse suspect [+]
Source: bbc.co.uk
Police arrested Wayne Nelson Corliss two days after Interpol released his picture appealing for public help in identifying the suspected paedophile.
Police in Norway had found images which allegedly show him abusing at least three Southeast Asian boys aged six to 10.Three people in the US identified Mr Corliss to Interpol as the suspect.
The 58-year-old is an actor who played Santa Claus and painted children's faces, the manager of the apartment building where he lived told the Associated Press news agency.
He was arrested at his home in Union City, New Jersey, and charged with producing and distributing child pornography, officials said.
May 7, 2008
Child Pornographer wanted by FBI arrested in Pattaya,
Thailand. [+]
Source: Bangkokpost.com
An Uzbek man wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation for child pornography offences in the United States has been arrested in Pattaya. Mikhail Georgevich Komov, 39, was apprehended on Saturday near a condominium in Chon Buri's Bang Lamung district.
The FBI, which has been searching for him for three years, alleges Mr Komov posted pornographic photos of children on websites and acted as a broker for their sexual services.
The FBI requested Thai assistance after learning he had fled to Thailand and was believed to be hiding under the protection of a Russian gang in Pattaya suspected of running a tour company as a front.
May 6, 2008
Interpol Hunt for Paedophile [+] Source: france24.com
Interpol on Tuesday launched a global hunt for a Western man suspected of sexually abusing Asian boys and distributing hundreds of photos of the acts on the Internet.
Interpol posted six images on its website of the man who is thought to have
abused three boys aged between six and 10 in Southeast Asia between April
2000 and May 2001.
"The law enforcement community around the world has done all it can to find this man who clearly presents a danger to young children, and we are now asking the public to help identify this predator and protect other potential victims from abuse," said Interpol chief Ronald Noble in a statement.
March 19, 2008
Geriatric paedophile charged with child abuse for a third time [+] Source: pattayadailynews.com
Almost a year to the day after his arrest with others in a paedophile ring, Maurice John Praill (77) has just been arrested in Pattaya on March 18, yet again ( for the third time) charged with child abuse.
According to the police, they were notified that Praill was waiting for a young boy (8) to be delivered to his house. Police planned to catch the deliveryman by taking photos and videos. While the police were waiting at the entrance of the village, a man drove up on a three wheel motorbike with a carrier behind, in which he had hidden a boy.
December 6, 2007
Police nab Dutch paedophile suspect [+] Source: Bangkokpost.com
Acting on an Interpol tip-off, Thai police arrested a 60-year-old Dutch national at Hua Hin beach resort on child sex abuse charges, authorities said Monday.
Willem Gerard Knoppien, 60, was arrested Sunday shortly after police filmed a 12-year-old Thai boy entering and leaving his rented home in Hua Hin, 130 kilometres south of Bangkok.
"We had received a warning from Netherlands Interpol that Knoppien had a child abuse record so we were keeping an eye on him," said Police Colonel Banya Pinsuk, of Thailand's Crimes Against Women and Children unit.
On Sunday morning a man on a motorcycle brought a 12-year-old Thai boy to Knoppien's Hua Hin home. Police filmed the boy entering the foreigner's house and leaving one hour later.
Banya said the boy had confessed to having sex with Knoppien for 120 baht (3.50 dollars), while the man who delivered him on the motorcycle received another 200 baht (5.90 dollars).
October 20, 2007
Thai Police Arrest Pedophile Suspect [+] Source: NYtimes.com
BANGKOK, Oct. 19 - At first, on the Internet, he was just a swirly face, something akin to a large multicolored lollipop that a man might give to a little boy.
On Friday, the Thai police said he was under arrest and charged as a pedophile after computer experts had unswirled the digitally altered face in a virtuoso act of electronic decoding.
The suspect, Christopher Paul Neil, 32, was found after Interpol issued a rare international appeal based on 200 Internet pictures showing the faceless man sexually abusing boys in Vietnam and Cambodia. Interpol said the man had abused a dozen boys in those countries, some as young as 6.
The Thai police said they had done some high-tech work of their own, tracing Mr. Neil to a location outside Bangkok through the cellphone calls of a friend.
Officials said Mr. Neil, who has been living in Asia and has taught English in Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea, would be prosecuted here and then sent to his home nation, Canada. The Canadian police are weighing whether to charge him under a recent law for sex crimes committed abroad.
March 3, 2006
Gary Glitter Sentenced To 3 Years [+] Source: cbsnews.com
A Vietnamese court on Friday sentenced former British glam rocker Gary Glitter to three years in prison for molesting two Vietnamese girls, with the judge condemning him for "disgusting and sick" behavior.
Glitter, 61, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was found guilty of committing obscene acts with two girls, ages 10 and 11, at his rented seaside villa in southern Vung Tau last year.
The former rock star showed no emotion while the verdict was read but threw the court into disarray by proclaiming his innocence afterward.
March 3, 2006
Time to tackle 'sex tourism' [+] Source: bbc.co.uk
In January of this year Alexander Kilpatrick, a 56-year-old father-of-two arrested in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, became the first person to be jailed in the UK using new laws to prosecute those who abuse children abroad.
As part of his sentence, Kilpatrick, who was jailed indefinitely for making trips to Africa to abuse poor children, was banned from Africa, Thailand, Cambodia, Goa or Costa Rica - all places associated with "child sex tourism".
Foreign Travel Orders, which allow for paedophiles to be banned from destinations where they could be a risk to children, were brought into law in May 2004 as part of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
October 25, 2005
Paedophile tracked down by father [+] Source: bbc.co.uk
A paedophile who fled the UK when he was released from prison on licence was caught after the victim's father hired a private detective to track him down.
Bernard Scullion, of Wallasey, Wirral, was jailed for two years in January 2004 for assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
He served five months but when he was released on licence he fled to Pattaya, in Thailand.
The girl's father, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spent thousands of pounds tracking the 54-year-old down.
August 24, 2005
Australian on sex charges [+] Source: The Australian
THAI police have arrested an Australian who allegedly took a young girl away from her hill tribe family, kept her as a sex slave for three years, and made pornographic videos featuring both of them along with other girls.
August 19, 2002
Thailand to deport child porn suspect [+] Source: BBC.co.uk
A court in Thailand has ordered the extradition of an American man wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of producing and distributing child pornography.
August 22, 2001
Most Wanted American Pedophile Arrested in Thailand [+] Source: Peopledaily.com
A self-confessed American pedophile who is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list was arrested in Bangkok on Tuesday August 21, a U.S. embassy official said.
Eric Franklin Rosser, 49, a former concert pianist, was arrested in the Thai capital by FBI officers and the Thai police acting on a tip-off and was in the custody of Thai police, the official said on condition of anonymity.
Rosser, who was born in Syracuse, N.Y., has been charged with child sex crimes in the United States and Thailand.
Rosser had worked as a pianist at Bangkok's luxury Oriental Hotel and ran a music school at his home where he gave lessons to children from prominent families.
In an open letter and an interview with The Nation newspaper after his arrest last year, Rosser admitted to frequent indecent acts with children and claimed he had lived a tortured life because of it. He said he would face punishment.
Rosser, who has a Thai wife and a young son, faces between 5 and 20 years in prison if convicted in Thailand. U.S. authorities were expected to extradite him after the Thai case was resolved.
