Vicissitude
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 Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:13 am Post subject: Pedophile British ESL Teacher Arrested in Bangkok Oct. 30th |
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Foreign teachers under scrutiny after Thai paedophile arrests
BANGKOK (AFP) - Thai authorities are conducting background checks on more than 1,000 foreigners working in Thailand after a spate of arrests for alleged child sex abuse, a senior officer said Wednesday.
Colonel Apichat Suriboonya, of Thailand's Interpol office, said police had contacted the home countries of many of the targeted foreigners, most of whom are teachers.
"We are now scrutinizing more than 1,000 foreign teachers working in Thailand," he told AFP.
"Before, educational institutions would only look at their academic qualifications, but that is not enough," he said.
Apichat did not say how police had chosen the foreigners in question.
Thailand has become the focus of international concerns over sexual abuse of children after the arrest of Canadian teacher Christopher Paul Neil earlier this month in northeast Thailand.
His arrest followed a worldwide Interpol campaign to track down a man in 200 Internet photos abusing Asian boys.
Police said they arrested a British national on Tuesday for allegedly posting photos of naked children on the Internet.
Paul Jones, a 39-year-old teacher, was arrested at his Bangkok home by British and Thai authorities, Apichat said. Jones had admitted to sending pornographic pictures to friends in England, he said.
Last week Briton Alan Charles Mawson, 74, was charged with sexually abusing a Thai boy in the resort of Pattaya after he was found with more than 100 albums of pictures of nude children, police said. |
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/071031/afp/071031055817asiapacificnews.html
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British teacher held for selling child porn
Acting on a tip-off from the United Kingdom, Thai police have arrested a British national suspected of posting child pornography on the internet, police sources said Wednesday.
British national Paul Cornelius Jones, 39, who has worked as an English teacher in Thailand for the past six to seven years, was arrested Tuesday night at his Bangkok apartment, said Thai Interpol officer Colonel Apichart Suriboonya.
"This arrest was the outcome of information British Interpol gave us about Jones two weeks ago," said Apichart.
Jones was initially charged with posting child pornography, including images of Thai children, on the internet, but police will investigate whether he also had intercourse with minors while living in the kingdom.
His arrest follows on the heels of the dramatic case of suspected Canadian paedophile Christopher Paul Neil, 32, who was arrested on October 19 in Thailand after an international manhunt prompted by child pornography on the internet.
Neil, a native of a Vancouver suburb, was arrested in a north-eastern Thailand province after fleeing from South Korea, where he had been teaching English when international police agency Interpol made a global plea for his capture.
Neil was initially charged with sexually molesting a 9-year-old Thai boy when he was residing in the country in 2003, when he was also employed as an English teacher.
The Neil and Jones cases are expected to prompt a tightening of immigration regulations on foreign teachers in Thailand.
"We will be asking the Immigration Department for more information on foreign teachers in Thailand," said Apichart in a telephone interview with Deutche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"It's distressing that both these suspected paedophiles had worked in Thailand as teachers, which allowed them a close proximity with children," he added. dpa
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/breaking_news/breakingnews.php?id=123155
Let's see if Korea follows what Thailand is doing and begins a witch hunt on the CURRENT teachers in Korea just as Thailand has already done. |
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