Internet paedophile suspect tracked to Thailand after Interpol appeal

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Internet paedophile suspect tracked to Thailand after Interpol appeal

Guardian Unlimited, UK - 2 hours ago

The suspected child abuser was identified by five different sources from three continents as a man teaching at a school in South Korea, Interpol said. ...

Interpol trace paedophile to Thailand after public tip-offs Times Online
Interpol says web surfers identified suspect it unmasked USA Today
Paedophile worked as teacher in South Korea Telegraph.co.uk

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Image previously snagged from Interpol site.

Just saw this on CNN and jumped to the puter to extract Googlr News.

In this photo provided by the Thai immigration authorities, and released by Interpol in Paris, Monday, Oct. 15, 2007, a suspected pedophile is seen in a picture taken by Thai immigration authorities following his arrival at Bangkok International airport on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2007. The suspected pedophile sought in an unprecedented worldwide Interpol manhunt has been identified and is believed to be in Thailand, the international police organization said Monday. The man, his face digitally disguised, was allegedly shown sexually abusing young boys in Vietnam and Cambodia in images posted on the Internet. (AP Photo/Interpol/Thai Immigration Authorithies/ho)

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Interpol Identifies Suspected Pedophile
By JAMEY KEATEN – 3 hours ago
PARIS (AP) — First Interpol unmasked his face. Now it knows his name. The international police organization, working off tips from people who responded to a global appeal for help, said Monday it has identified a suspected pedophile shown in Internet photos abusing young boys.
The man, whose face initially was disguised behind a digitalized swirl, is now thought to be on the run in Thailand, Interpol said. He is said to be an English teacher at a school in South Korea.
The man was allegedly shown sexually abusing 12 young Vietnamese and Cambodian boys, apparently ranging in age from 6 to early teens, in about 200 photographs posted on the Internet. Using techniques that neither they nor Interpol would discuss, German police recreated an image of the man's face and released four reconstructed photos of him last week.
Interpol said more than 350 people then supplied tips to authorities worldwide. Officials are still collecting and analyzing evidence to bring charges against the man if he is arrested, it said...

Yesterday: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_15782.aspx

And it turns out, he's Canadian. Authorities in Thailand have confirmed the wanted man is 32-year-old Christopher Paul Neil. While they didn't reveal exactly where he's from, they do indicate his home country is Canada.

Today: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_15798.aspx

Police here expect the suspect to be extradited and returned to Canada once he's caught and any subsequent trial could be held on these shores. "Because we now have the laws in place to prosecute and because the offender has been identified as a Canadian, he'll be brought back to Canada to face the penalties here," agrees Kim Scanlan of the Toronto Police Child Exploitation Unit. Detectives have been trying to learn his name for at least three years, but it wasn't until Interpol took the rare step of making his face public that the case came together.

Neil's family is based in Maple Ridge, B.C. and it's said he attended the University of British Columbia. He left this country five years ago to teach English overseas, but his relatives haven't heard from him since he departed for South Korea in August. A student in the city of Gwangju says he suddenly stopped showing up for class last week and disappeared. He describes him as a well-liked instructor who also had a temper.

Now his brother is pleading for his sibling to surrender and put this behind him. "My mother is devastated and the family is in shock," 30-year-old Matthew Neil reveals, after the Mounties came asking about him. "We're co-operating with RCMP and Interpol. We're hoping this comes to a quick close."

And it should - his picture has been handed out to border guards across the region and there's no place he can go unobserved.

http://www.voyage.gc.ca/main/pubs/child_endure-en.asp

Child Sex Tourism: It's a Crime

... It's a Crime

It is illegal to have sexual relations with children, whether in Canada or in another country.

Canada has included in its Criminal Code provisions that allow for the arrest and prosecution of Canadians in Canada for offences committed in foreign countries related to child sex tourism, such as child prostitution, as well as for child sexual exploitation offences, such as indecent acts, child pornography and incest. Convictions carry a penalty of up to 14 years' imprisonment. Many other countries have passed similar laws.

In addition, most foreign countries are vigorously enforcing existing national laws to combat sexual exploitation of their children within their borders by foreign visitors. Harsh penalties such as long prison sentences - and, in some countries, the death sentence - are imposed on offenders who sexually exploit children.

The Canadian Criminal Code provisions relating to child sex tourism (Bills C-27 and C-15A) came into force on May 26, 1997, and July 23, 2002, respectively. <The first bill dealt with only commercial sexual exploitation of children, i.e. child prostitution; all sexual offences against children outside Canada may now be prosecuted in Canada.> The Canadian Criminal Code now asserts extraterritorial jurisdiction for the following offences relating to sexual exploitation of children:

* sexual interference
* invitation to sexual touching
* sexual exploitation
* anal intercourse
* making, distributing, making available, transmitting, selling or possessing child pornography
* indecent acts/exposure
* prostitution of a person under 18 years