They caught this piece of sh1t!
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/19/asia/thai.php
Internet pedophile suspect arrested in Thailand
By Seth Mydans
Friday, October 19, 2007
BANGKOK: 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, a blue shirt draped over his head, he was charged as a pedophile by the Thai police, who tracked him down after German computer experts unswirled the digitally altered face in a virtuoso act of electronic decoding.
The suspect, Christopher Paul Neil, 32, was caught earlier in the day, after Interpol issued an unusual international appeal Oct. 8 to flush out the man shown sexually abusing boys in Vietnam and Cambodia in some 200 pictures circulating on the Internet.
The Thai police said they had employed some high-tech unscrambling of their own, tracing Neil to a location outside Bangkok through the cellular telephone calls of a friend.
Officials said Neil, who had been teaching English in Thailand, Vietnam and South Korea, would be prosecuted here and then extradited to his home country, Canada, where a recent law allows prosecution there for sex crimes committed abroad.
His was the latest in a series of highly publicized arrests of foreigners accused of abusing children in Southeast Asia. They include the British rocker Gary Glitter, imprisoned in Vietnam last year, and John Mark Karr, who was arrested here last year and falsely claimed to have killed the American child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey.
Experts note that children can be especially vulnerable to authority figures like teachers.
"We are seeing that quite a few of the foreigners who come here are taking jobs as teachers, putting themselves into situations where they are close to children in positions of trust," said Richard Bridle, the Unicef deputy regional director for East Asia and the Pacific.
But others pointed out that most of those charged with abusing children have not been teachers and that foreigners make up a tiny percentage of abusers in Asia.
"Many of us who work in the trafficking field in Southeast Asia are concerned that the spotlight is too much on foreign tourists," said Allan Dow, Communications Officer for the International Labor Organization's Mekong Project to Combat Trafficking in Children and Women. "The vast majority - 90 percent - are abused at the hands of locals."
The Thai arrest warrant was based on the testimony of a boy who said he was lured to Neil's apartment by a Thai man. The police said the boy was one of three - aged 9, 13 and 14 at the time - who answered a televised appeal that showed the suspect's portraits.
Interpol said the man in its pictures had abused a dozen Cambodian and Vietnamese boys as young as 6 years old.
The authorities said Neil had fled here from South Korea, his most recent home, a week ago after Interpol distributed the portraits, which it said had been unraveled by experts working with the German police.
Those portraits were published in newspapers here alongside a somewhat similar photograph of a bald man with glasses taken at immigration control in Bangkok, where all arriving passengers are photographed.
Newspapers also printed what officials said were chatty Internet postings by Neil on the social networking site MySpace.
"Been kicking around Asia for the past five years, teaching mainly and finding other forms of mischief," reads a personal profile that describes the writer as "5 feet, 11 inches tall, slim and slender."
"I love teaching, can't get enough of it really," the posting says.
I hope he gets a-hole rot in a Thai prison and dies a slow, painful death from the inside out.
jag
