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…)

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…)

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…)

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

From Vietnam News Agency

HA NOI — More and more Vietnamese women and children are being sold into slavery by human traffickers, said Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong yesterday at a national workshop in Ha Noi.

Nearly 6,000 Vietnamese women and children have been sold as cheap labour or prostitutes in foreign countries, according to reports released by the Ministry of Public Security.

Another 8,000 are suspected to have been smuggled out of the country illegally by traffickers.

Deputy Minister of Public Security Le The Tiem said the number of human smugglers that were caught increased by 72 per cent in 2006 when compared to statistics from 2005. (more…)

By Guy Delauney
From BBC News, Phnom Penh

The Cambodian government has launched the country’s first national task force to combat human trafficking.
Thousands of people are trafficked in or through the south-east Asian nation every year.

The new task force will bring together government ministries, law enforcement groups and international agencies.

Cambodia has hundreds of different anti-trafficking organisations, and reducing duplication of effort will be one of the task force’s main goals.

Clearer picture

Anti-trafficking is a fashionable cause, and donors have poured untold millions of dollars into efforts to help victims and punish traffickers.

But in Cambodia at least, that eagerness to help has also been the cause of consternation.

There are so many organisations operating here that it can be difficult to measure the success of anti-trafficking efforts, and many of them are competing for donor funding, muddying the waters still further.

The new task force hopes to co-ordinate efforts and get a clearer picture of what is actually going on. (more…)

By Donna Porter
From Associated Content

Kent Frank of Miami, FL was convicted today of eight counts of sex tourism and child pornography charges following a five-week trial in federal court. His sexual victims extended to Cambodia, and after almost two days of deliberations the federal jury in Miami found Frank guilty of eight counts charged in a 10-count indictment. The trial was held before Judge Adalberto Jordan.

Child sex tourists are individuals that travel to foreign countries to engage in sexual activity with children. It is estimated that more than one million children worldwide are drawn into the sex trade annually. The victims frequently live in poor countries where the law is thought to be more easily avoided or corrupted. These poverty-stricken areas are home to children who are sold for sexual exploitation, or who sell themselves, for basic necessities such as food.

The jury found that Frank engaged in commercial sex acts with three minors during two separate trips to Cambodia between September 2003 and January 2004. Evidence showed that Frank paid three Cambodian minors money so that he could take sexually explicit and nude pictures of the girls. The jury heard evidence that the defendant took sexually explicit images of several other minors in addition to the four females referenced in the indictment. (more…)

April 4th 2007
From the Kenya Times

With her sleeping six-month-old baby daughter under one arm, 17-year-old Alice (not her real name) explains why she moved to Mombasa from ‘up country’, and how she joined the growing ranks of young girls involved in the commercial sex trade on the Kenyan coast.

“When I was sixteen, I became pregnant and my parents were very upset. They threw me out of my home and I dropped out of school, so my boyfriend and I decided to move to Mombasa to start a new life. After three months he left me, and I had to find a way to make money. There are no jobs around here, and I had no money. I had to buy food to feed my growing baby. I just carried on from there,” she said.

Serving ideally ‘mzungu’ male tourists, but otherwise locals, she does not see herself as a prostitute, preferring instead to be referred to as someone who practices ‘bangaisha,’ a ‘Sheng’ word meaning ‘soliciting for business’.

According to a United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report, commercial sex tourism is growing rapidly on the Kenyan coast, and gaining increasing acceptance as a valid way of earning an income, spurred on by a flourishing tourism industry. According to the Kenya Tourism Board, 1.68 million tourists visited Kenya in 2005. (more…)

Tuesday, March 13 2007

By Mata Press Service

The arrest of an English teacher from Canada for allegedly attempting to have sex with a 13-year-old Cambodia beggar girl has once again put the spotlight on the child sex tourism in the poor Asian nation.

The arrest has also prompted calls by anti-child sex trade activists to charge the man under Canada’s child sex tourism laws, which has only been used once before. “We are calling on the Canadian government to investigate the serious allegation against this individual, and if they are substantiated to lay charges under Canada’s child sex tourism laws,” said Sabrina Sullivan, Managing Director of The Future Group.

The Cambodian Daily reported that Richard Beaulac, a 35-year-old man from Quebec has been charged in Cambodia with the attempted rape of a 13 year-old girl, who was a street beggar.

It said that Beaulac entered Cambodia on January 1 and has been working in the tourist town of Siem Reap as an English teacher.

Beaulac allegedly picked up the 13-year old girl and three other female street children and took them back to his apartment, according to Sun Bunthang, provincial anti-human trafficking police chief. (more…)