Thailand Holds Pedophile Suspect After Photo Decoded (Update2)

[helderheid]

By Anuchit Nguyen and Fergal O'Brien

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.''

Unshaven and wearing black sunglasses, Neil made no comment as he was taken in handcuffs into the national police headquarters in Bangkok. He had also recently shaved his head, according to broadcast footage of a police news briefing that he attended.

Neil, born in British Columbia, worked in Canadian military training camps for cadets age 12 to 18 years in the late 1990s, the Regina Leader-Post reported, citing army Lieutenant Carole Brown. Brown said she wasn't aware that any complaints had emerged in Canada since Neil's details were released by Interpol, according to the newspaper.

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[TygrBright]

1. Yeah. You Westerners aren't allowed to exploit our Asian children...

...only WE can exploit and profit from forcing them into sexual slavery in the brothels that attract you Western tourists.

Get it right.

sourly,
Bright

[NYVet]

2. I say we let them keep him

considering what they do to drug dealers, I think it would be a fitting punishment.

[SoCalDem]

3. Indeed. He will get a more "appropriate" sentence in Thailand

and the victims are Thai, so he needs to face the music there.. Had he committed the crimes here, and fled to Thailand, that would be different, but he lived & worked there and offended there..

[mainegreen]

4. Indeed. n/t

[Richard Steele]

5. Seems he committed the crimes in Thailand, so it's their jurisdiction, right? Works for me. nm