Mader arrested
Surrey resident taken into custory at Vancouver International Airport

CanWest News Service
Published: Friday, November 02, 2007

Orville Frank Mader, a Surrey resident wanted for alleged sex crimes against a young boy in Thailand is in police custody in British Columbia, CBC reported.

Mader, 54, was arrested Thursday at Vancouver International Airport, where he was arriving from Thailand.
The RCMP’s Integrated Child Exploitation Team brought Mader to Surrey. He’s expected to make a court appearance in Surrey Friday.

Mader is accused of abusing an eight-year-old boy. An arrest warrant was issued in Thailand on Wednesday.

Mader is the second Canadian arrested in recent weeks for alleged sex crimes overseas.

Christopher Paul Neil, 32, of Maple Ridge, was arrested in Thailand in October after an international manhunt.
Police say images of Neil abusing young boys in were digitally altered to mask his identity, but were worked on by computer experts to identify the suspect. He has denied the charges.

SUTIN WANNABOVORN
Associated Press
October 19, 2007 at 5:39 AM EDT
Link to the original article on the Globe and Mail

Bangkok, Thailand — A Canadian schoolteacher suspected of sexually abusing boys was arrested in rural Thailand on Friday after an international manhunt that relied on digitally unscrambled photos and tips from the public.

“Bingo! We’ve got him,” said police Major-General Wimol Powintaras.

Handcuffed, with a blue shirt draped over his head, 32-year-old Christopher Paul Neil from Maple Ridge, B.C., did not comment to reporters as officers led him into the national police headquarters in Bangkok, where a news conference was held later in the day.

Mr. Neil was found in the province of Nakhon Ratchasima, where police said he had been hiding in the town of a Thai friend believed to have arranged some of his alleged sexual liaisons with boys.

He was to be extradited to Canada after being prosecuted in Thailand, said police spokesman Pongsapat Pongjaren.

Canada — which can prosecute its citizens for child sex crimes committed abroad, but has rarely done so — has not said if it plans to seek Neil’s extradition.

“We are aware an arrest has been made and we will offer consular services as necessary,” a spokesman for the Canadian embassy in Bangkok said.

Cambodia and Vietnam might also want to question him. (more…)

By: Jackie Reed
English teacher for A.E.E’s Academic Program
June-July 2007

When I went to Cambodia to volunteer I had no idea what to expect. I had never travelled overseas before, least of all to a developing nation. When I arrived in Phnom Penh airport I was excited and nervous at the same time. As my tuk-tuk (moto-taxi) veered in and out of the chaotic traffic I held my breath. The sites, sounds and smells of the city would put anyone into an immediate state of displacement and at a loss for words. Brightly robed monks weaved in and through market crowds collecting alms, impoverished, hungry children begged for money, while disfigured men and women hawk their wears for 50 cents a piece.

The heat of the Cambodian sun makes your body drip constantly with sweat. And as the flies buzzed in my ears, I began to worry that this might not be the trip of a lifetime after all.

On my first day working at A.E.E’s Drop-in Centre in Toul Kork, I was assigned the task of picking up the school children who lived in a nearby slum. I love children. My daughter who is 6 years old, the same age as some of our children waited for me back home in Canada, cherished and spoiled by her doting grandparents.

When I arrived at the slum, a shudder coursed through my veins. There they were: a dozen children, dirty, smelly, all of whom eagerly await for their ride to school. The children live in broken homes, floorboards gaping, garbage and sewage spilling out from under and surrounding their shacks. But despite their wretched surrounding, there were smiles, there were hugs, and never have I seen such genuine hope and happiness from a group of children.

Through the next five weeks working as an English teacher for A.E.E’s Academic Bridge Program, I had the chance to learn more about these children. It was a privilege to learn about each child’s unique aspirations, talents, and their dreams for a better future. I learned too, the one thing that held them all in common: I learned that they were all bandaged into the life sucking cycle of poverty from which they were born. By the end of my stay in Cambodia, I realized that these children will never leave my heart. (more…)

BANGKOK GIRL
Tuesday November 15, 2005 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld
repeating Tuesday May 7 at 10 pm PT & Saturday May 12 at 10pm ET/PT on CBC Newsword

From CBC’s Website:

Bangkok Girl is a ‘remarkably accomplished, beautifully photographed and intimate debut documentary that puts a human face on the devastating social issue that, sadly, is the fate of too many impoverished girls.’

Bangkok Girl was produced by High Banks Entertainment Ltd. (Victoria, B.C.) in association with CBC Newsworld.

From The Associated Press
5/4/2007 3:51:41 PM

ATLANTA (AP) — When he was arrested after getting off a flight at a New York airport in 2004, Gainesville anesthesiologist Gregory Kapordelis was charged with traveling to Russia to have sex with young boys.

The government used a relatively new law at the time that makes it possible for U.S. citizens who molest children abroad to be prosecuted for the crime in federal court at home. (more…)

CITIZENShift is an interactive platform where you can explore social issues through: films, photography, articles, blogs and podcasts.

The “Trafficking in Humanity” section of the website offers comprehensive lists of podcasts, films, literature on human trafficking and related issues. To visit this section of CITIZENShift’s website, click here.

On CITIZENShift, you can listen to an audio documentary produced by Outervoices.org, about Cambodian women who have survived sex trafficking and those who have helped them.

To listen to part one, click here.

To listen to part two, click here.

To listen to part three, click here.

By Jennifer Squires
From MediaNews
Article dated: 04/20/2007

A Santa Cruz man will serve more than four years in prison for sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica.

A U.S. District Court judge handed down the sentence to 39-year-old Timothy Ronald Obert on Monday.

Obert is one of the first people convicted under a four-year-old federal law that seeks to crack down on the child-sex tourism industry.

Obert, who was a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica from September 2001 to July 2003, was arrested at his Santa Cruz home and indicted in June 2004. As part of a plea deal, Obert admitted in February 2006 to one count of having `illicit sexual contact` with the boy while he was in the country as a Peace Corps volunteer working with PANI, the country’s child welfare agency.

The indictment alleged Obert performed oral sex on the boy and provided him with money, drugs and alcohol. He faced up to 15 years in prison, a $250,000 fine and a requirement he register as a sex offender. (more…)

“Tìm Em Ghé Chợ Mã Lai”.
Music & Lyrics: Nhạc Sĩ Trần Chí Phúc.
Producer: Nguyen Khoi.
Videographer: Cuong Le.

From the The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO- A federal judge sentenced a man to more than five years in prison after he admitted paying for sex with underage girls in Cambodia.

Michael John Koklich, 49, was arrested by local police in Phnom Penh on Feb. 17, 2006 after a non-governmental organization, Action Pour Les Enfants, reported that Koklich had been spotted with several young Cambodian girls.

He was deported a month later and is the latest in a series of Americans arrested in Cambodia on suspicion of sexually abusing children to be sent back to the United States under the Protect Act, which allows the U.S. to handle Americans accused of abusing children in foreign countries.

Koklich pleaded guilty Tuesday to traveling to Cambodia to have sex with children.

U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker also ordered Koklich to pay restitution to two minor female victims totaling $10,000.
Koklich spent as many as nine months a year living in Cambodia. The rest of the time he spent living a recreational vehicle in the Bay Area.

This is a follow up to a previous post

The following is a discussion about the trafficking of Vietnamese children into Cambodia from an episode of “Diễn Đàn Khoa Học” produced by the Vietnamese channel, Saigon Broadcasting Television Network.

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3: