German pedophile is arrested !!!

Two more arrests in Thai, Cambodian pedophile allegations

The Associated Press

Published: November 2, 2007


PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: A German man who allegedly had sex with a 14-
year-old Cambodian girl has been arrested in one of several new
suspected pedophile cases in Southeast Asia, police said Friday.

The arrest came after police in Thailand detained a British man on
suspicion of pedophile activities, and officers in Vancouver held a
Canadian whose extradition to face a child sex charge - also in
Thailand - had been sought.

Police in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, raided the German
suspect's hotel room Thursday and discovered him with the teenage
girl, said Keo Thea, deputy chief of Cambodia's anti human-trafficking
police. The German will face charges in court, Keo Thea said.

In Canada, Orville Frank Mader, 54, was arrested on arrival Thursday
at Vancouver's international airport, said police Col. Apichart
Suribunya, head of Thailand's liaison office for Interpol.

Thai police had issued an arrest warrant for Mader on Wednesday after
an 8-year-old Thai boy said he was taken to Mader's hotel room by a
Thai man in Thailand's beach resort town of Pattaya, said Apichart.
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"We have asked Canadian authorities to extradite him because he has
committed crimes in Thailand," Apichart said. Under Canadian law, its
citizens can also be prosecuted at home for sex crimes committed
abroad.

Mader's arrest follows the detention Tuesday of British man Paul
Cornelius Jones, 39, following a raid on his Bangkok apartment where
police said they found a computer containing photos of naked boys and
girls. Jones, of Cardiff, Wales, has been charged with distributing
pornographic photographs of children under age 15.

"What we are seeing is an increased level of awareness among the
police structures (and) the establishment of specialized units that
allow them to arrest the perpetrators," said Carmen Madrinan,
executive director of End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and
Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, a worldwide network of
groups striving to end the sexual exploitation of children.

"Many NGOs (nongovernment organizations) are becoming more and more
vigilant, keeping under observation and tipping off the authorities
suspected child sex offenders," said Madrinan.

A French child rights group, Action Pour Les Enfants, said it had
tipped off Phnom Penh police about the arrested German. But the
Cambodia director of the NGO, Samleang Seila, said, "There are still
many loopholes and gaps in the legislation system and the judiciary
that enable perpetrators to avoid conviction."

The problem of Western pedophiles in Southeast Asia was highlighted by
a worldwide appeal by Interpol that resulted in the arrest Oct. 19 of
Christopher Paul Neil, another Canadian, who is accused of having
abused Thai, Vietnamese and Cambodian boys.

The hunt for Neil began three years ago when about 200 photographs of
a man sexually abusing children were discovered online. His face was
digitally obscured, but German police were able to unscramble the
photos, which were then circulated by Interpol. Public tip-offs helped
police identify Neil as a suspect and he was arrested in rural
Thailand.
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