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World Traveler
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 Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 2:24 am Post subject: U.S. pedophile suspect arrested in S. Korea |
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An American man suspected of sexually abusing minors in the United States has been arrested in South Korea after an eight-year-long international manhunt, police here said Friday.
The 44-year-old suspect, whose identity has been withheld, is suspected of raping minors in the U.S. state of Kentucky four times between August and October 2003, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency (SMPA).
The suspect entered South Korea in 2004 via Thailand, the SMPA said, adding that he has since been working as an English tutor at private institutions, elementary schools, and universities in the southwestern Jeolla provinces, it added. |
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130503000340
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Under the revised visa laws, overseas E-2 visa applicants are required to submit criminal background checks to South Korean consulates in their respective countries.
However, such files do not include records of ongoing criminal investigations, which allowed the pedophile suspect to receive an E-2 visa, according to police.
"We will continue with investigations as we believe that there will be more foreigners hiding in the country after committing crimes in their home countries," the officer added. (Yonhap News) |
Uh oh. This could be bad for us. Maybe there will be more paper work and hoops to jump through (expensive and time consuming docs) to get in the future. Man what a shame. It's too bad horrible people like this come to Korea. I wonder what universities he worked for. (I'm guessing he was working at one at the time of the arrest.) Just a few years ago it was so easy to get into universities, especially in the sticks. Now, it is super hard to get in as a new hire, but the freaks who happened to be in Korea when hiring standards were low are for the most part not being weeded out. Remember the article about the crazy Canadian who murdered a student because of her refusal to marry him? At the time of the homicide, he was working in a university, and had been for quite some time. Man, it sickens me some of the people working in Korea (and in good jobs like universities). I wonder how many other criminals on the run are out there. Some with criminal records (actual convictions) got married to Koreans just in the nick of time before the nationwide FBI was required. (I heard stories about this.) I'm at a loss for words now. |
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Swampfox10mm
Joined: 24 Mar 2011
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 2:29 am Post subject: |
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Amazing, isn't it?
Here all this time, and he didn't even feel the desire to masturbate in front of his students like that Korean teacher last week? Maybe he should have just so the police could say he doesn't have a mental problem?
Glad they got him, anyway. |
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Keeper
Joined: 11 Jun 2012
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| "Eight-year long international manhunt" and it isn't on the CRC? You would think the FBI could write down, "immediately detain and call the FBI" or something. They need to find out how it happened and correct the problem. Glad they got him but how about a little cross-referencing now? |
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War Eagle
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| "Eight-year long international manhunt" and it isn't on the CRC? You would think the FBI could write down, "immediately detain and call the FBI" or something. They need to find out how it happened and correct the problem. Glad they got him but how about a little cross-referencing now? |
It's because the FBI CRC is BS. It's easy to get a clean legit one. Hint: the CRC was NEVER meant to be pulled by the person it is reporting on. |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| Maybe the guy got into a university before the E2 checks were required and stayed at that university. Universities don't necessarily require criminal background checks, depending on the person (and their visa status, for example, F4,F6,F2). Maybe he got a state check at some point and then just stayed at the same job. Or maybe he was being investigated but fled the country before an actual arrest was made, so he wasn't on record (in the FBI files). I wonder how the police caught him. Any more links to other articles anyone? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 3:29 am Post subject: |
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suspected and alleged = clean check.
2003 means he was in before the paperwork became onerous.
That didn't happen until CPN in 2006.
American national and State level jurisdiction over the investigation means there would be nothing in the FBI data base prior to an arrest (problems of a fractured system with too many little fiefdoms not talking to each other in order to protect their own bit of turf).
Unfortunately, with the way the US system is at present, there is no way for Korean immigration / MOE to prevent this from happening in the future. It is doomed to repeat itself.
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 4:27 am Post subject: |
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There's not much more they can do to ratchet up screening. A lot of creeps, hopefully, have been put off applying & will stick to their basements back home.
Last edited by schwa on Fri May 03, 2013 4:43 am; edited 1 time in total |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 4:42 am Post subject: |
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I saw this on another site. They are also having a big dustup in China over a wanted pedophile they just caught teaching in Beijing.
http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/neil-robinson-has-been-captured-in-beijing/
This may seem like a stupid question but how can someone who is a wanted criminal just fly out of the country? Don't they check anyone at the airport? |
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toby99
Joined: 28 Aug 2009
Location: Dong-Incheon-by-the-sea, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 4:50 am Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
I saw this on another site. They are also having a big dustup in China over a wanted pedophile they just caught teaching in Beijing.
http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/neil-robinson-has-been-captured-in-beijing/
This may seem like a stupid question but how can someone who is a wanted criminal just fly out of the country? Don't they check anyone at the airport? |
I share the same question. Sounds like a huge fail on the part of the United States. |
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War Eagle
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 5:17 am Post subject: |
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| dairyairy wrote: |
I saw this on another site. They are also having a big dustup in China over a wanted pedophile they just caught teaching in Beijing.
http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/neil-robinson-has-been-captured-in-beijing/
This may seem like a stupid question but how can someone who is a wanted criminal just fly out of the country? Don't they check anyone at the airport? |
I share the same question. Sounds like a huge fail on the part of the United States. |
You don't get flagged when leaving unless you are a VERY wanted criminal. Unfortunately, a pedophile doesn't count as such. Something like that is handled at a state level, whereas a terrorist would be handled at the federal level. Federal level criminals get names put into databases that are flagged at airports.
However, upon return, everyone gets checked. |
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Dodge7
Joined: 21 Oct 2011
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| I just wanna kick guys like this in the balls for potentially making my life harder in Korea. |
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dairyairy
Joined: 17 May 2012
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 5:50 am Post subject: |
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| War Eagle wrote: |
| toby99 wrote: |
| dairyairy wrote: |
I saw this on another site. They are also having a big dustup in China over a wanted pedophile they just caught teaching in Beijing.
http://beijingcream.com/2013/04/neil-robinson-has-been-captured-in-beijing/
This may seem like a stupid question but how can someone who is a wanted criminal just fly out of the country? Don't they check anyone at the airport? |
I share the same question. Sounds like a huge fail on the part of the United States. |
You don't get flagged when leaving unless you are a VERY wanted criminal. Unfortunately, a pedophile doesn't count as such. Something like that is handled at a state level, whereas a terrorist would be handled at the federal level. Federal level criminals get names put into databases that are flagged at airports.
However, upon return, everyone gets checked. |
That makes sense. Fleeing internationally makes someone a wanted international criminal and puts them on the radar for arrest at airports. You would think that judges would hold their passports when they are charged with crimes that would lead them to flee. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 6:12 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
| There's not much more they can do to ratchet up screening. A lot of creeps, hopefully, have been put off applying & will stick to their basements back home. |
Yeah there is. However I'm not going to mention the possibilities here. |
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newb
Joined: 27 Aug 2012
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 6:19 am Post subject: |
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There's an important misinformation in the report. The guy came into Korea as an E-2er but he's been married to Korean. Thus, he must been on F series visa.
Source of this information is MBC evening news. |
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World Traveler
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| Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 6:34 am Post subject: |
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Did the news say in what area he was living? Jeonju?
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| MBC showed up to the education office as fall teachers were renewing their contracts today. They tried to film us, but filmed a few documents on the sign-in table. They scurried away after the coordinator got on her phone. |
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so personal opinion here:
there were cameras in jeonju today, at a contract resigning for english teachers. they were chased off, not sure why MBC would be doing a positive piece on us, use your judgement. but i would think if they want shots of foreigners to project a negative image, the drinking areas would be a good place. be smart if you see a bright lite and camera man. AND be super careful of what you say if they stick a mic in your face. only takes one to ruin it for everyone
once again, personal opinion. could be blowing it out of proportion. |
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