It was announced today that Canadian school teacher and professional pedophile, Christopher Paul Neil, was arrested in Thailand (see Thailand Holds Pedophile Suspect After Photo Decoded (Update2)). In a eerily similar case to that of Anthony Mark Bianchi, Neil traveled the globe to have sex with children (I feel ill just typing that sentence). Unlike Bianchi, Neil somehow managed to get INTERPOL's full attention.
This is the first case of an international man hunt of this scale for a pedophile. I think INTERPOL has linked him to some key international sex traffickers. Based on his background, he is obviously not a trafficker; he's a user. As a result, the media mainly focuses on him and not his network. One most excellent article from the Canadian Press tells how open some Asian countries are about selling out children (see Corrupt law enforcement, sex networks provide cover for pedophiles in Asia.
Across Asia, hundreds of thousands of girls and boys are believed to work in the sex trade mostly in Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines.
Some of their customers - mostly older men - commit their crimes with relative impunity, walking hand-in-hand with underage girls in Bangkok or with boys in a resort hotel on the Indonesian island of Bali. The victims in many cases are the poorest children, including beggars, street children and the homeless.
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Other pedophiles operate more covertly, depending on secretive pedophile rings in cyberspace to find their victims. The networks offer tips on the best places to meet children or arrange sexual rendezvous in luxury condos or on private yachts.
To get access to such networks and earn credibility among their fellow pedophiles, they often must provide evidence of sex acts they have committed with children - as Neil appears to have done by putting the sexually explicit photos of himself with young boys.
Still others turn to jobs like teaching or tutoring that gives them ready access to youngsters. Teaching English is especially popular because jobs are easy to get and the position carries with it a level of authority that makes it difficult for the children and even their parents to question abuses.
Sick. There are so many angles to this story: pedophile teachers, international sex trafficking of children, and how the Internet is used to connect networks of pedophiles. I would like to see many more stories like the Canadian Press story quoted above. This problem is not going away; it's getting worse.
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