Thai police have found, arrested Canadian pedophile Christopher Paul Neil...

[NorthernSpy]

... he of the "clever" scrambled photograph. And it turns out he's a teacher.

Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Thai police arrested a Canadian teacher after Interpol computer experts unscrambled disguised images of a man's face from photographs on the Internet that showed him sexually abusing Southeast Asian boys.

Christopher Paul Neil, 32, was held on charges of molesting at least 12 boys in Southeast Asia after a two-year Interpol investigation that sparked a global manhunt this month centering on Thailand. Neil was arrested early today in Nakhon Ratchasima province, 200 kilometers (125 miles) northeast of Bangkok, Chuchart Suwannakom, commander of the Thai tourist police division, said in a telephone interview.

``This man is a danger to children, so taking him out of circulation is great,'' Interpol crime-intelligence officer Michael Moran told Ireland's RTE radio. ``The arrest, taken in terms of other high-profile cases, goes to show that abusing children, traveling from the West to Southeast Asia to abuse children, is just not going to be tolerated.''

Neil, born in New Westminster, British Columbia, made no comment as he was taken in handcuffs into the national police headquarters in Bangkok.

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[NorthernSpy]

1. English schools in Asia: "Kids 'Sitting Ducks' for Pedophile Teachers"

Sad.

In January, British national Sean McMahon, 45, who was teaching English in Bangkok was repatriated to Great Britain on charges that he had raped an 8-year-old girl there.

A month later, Australian Peter William Smith, 48, who taught at a school in Jakarta, Indonesia, was sentenced to 10 years and fined $10,000 by an Indonesian court for engaging in sex with more than 50 boys.

Probably the most publicized arrest of a teacher accused of preying on children came in August 2006, when American John Mark Karr, who confessed to -- and was later exonerated for -- the 1996 murder of Jon Bennet Ramsey was picked up in Thailand. Karr's case spotlighted the ease with which sexual predators could find work in the region's schools.

Karr lost his California teaching license in 2001 for possessing child pornography but had nevertheless taught at three Thai elementary schools.

"While some men pay for sex, teaching offers the perfect venue for access to others. ... These men are highly manipulative and experienced. … Schoolchildren are simply sitting ducks. There are lots of cultural mores about welcoming foreigners and many cultural taboos about complaining about teachers."

-- Rosalind Prober

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Good! BUMP!