Interpol Takes Sex Abuser Search Worldwide

Seeks Suspected Pedophile Preying On Young Southeast Asian Boys

(AP)  Interpol launched a worldwide appeal to the public Tuesday to help identify a man suspected of sexually abusing young boys from Southeast Asia - images of whom were spread through the Internet.

It was only the second time that the international police agency has appealed directly to the public for help in identifying a suspected pedophile. The first time, last October, rapidly led to an arrest.

The suspect in the latest case is a white man, shown with gray, thinning hair in six photos released by Interpol. He appeared to be in his late 40s or early 50s in the images.

Interpol said that despite two years of investigations, it and other police agencies have so far been unable to determine his identity, nationality or whereabouts - hence the decision to appeal publicly for information.

"The law enforcement community around the world has done all it can to find this man who clearly presents a danger to young children, and we are now asking the public to help identify this predator and protect other potential victims from abuse," Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said in a statement.

In interviews at the agency's headquarters in Lyon, France, Interpol officials said they had recovered photos of the man that allegedly show him sexually abusing at least three boys, apparently aged between 6 and 10 years old. The boys appear to be from Southeast Asia - though Interpol officials declined to specify any possible countries.

Kristin Kvigne, assistant director of Interpol's division that combats people trafficking, said it was impossible to know how many other children the man could have abused.

"There are at least three child victims that are in the images, but it could be more," she said in an interview.

Kvigne said the photos show "severe abuse" by the man but she declined to go into detail.

Two graphic photos seen by The Associated Press, which were not among those that Interpol made public, appeared to show the man engaged in fellatio with a tanned thin boy. In another, the man was lying between two boys who appeared to be touching his genitals.

"It's important to know that these images were found on the Internet, so the attention that he is going to draw is attention that he actually put on himself when perpetrating against children," Kvigne said.

Interpol said it believes that the photos were taken between April 2000 and May 2001.

Police first became aware of the suspect in March 2006, when photos of him were found on the computer hard-drive of a man arrested in Norway who was later convicted on pedophilia-related charges, Interpol said.

Police then cross-checked those photos against others found on the Internet, to see if there were matches that might link the man to other alleged abuse. Interpol used its database of child abuse images to perform the checks, scanning such details as the wallpaper shown in photos to see if there were matches. In all, Interpol said that it found about 800 photos featuring the man, his alleged victims, or areas where they were once pictured.

One of the photos released publicly by Interpol shows the man wearing glasses. Two others show him lying on a checkered mat or rug in a plaid, yellow shirt. None of the six photos show him with boys - though one appears to show what looks like the side of a boy's shoulder, and a small tuft of hair.

In October, suspected pedophile Christopher Paul Neil, a 32-year-old teacher from Canada, was arrested in Thailand just 11 days after Interpol issued a global appeal to help apprehend him.

In that case, Neil's face had originally been disguised in Internet photos with a digital swirl. Police managed to reverse the swirl process, unmasking his face, and Interpol released those cleaned-up images publicly. Neil was arrested in Thailand on Oct. 19, 2007. He went on trial in March, accused of sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy.

In the latest case, the man did not appear to make any effort to hide his identity on the photos that were seized on the computer in Norway, Interpol officials said.

Interpol officials said they don't know why the man did not attempt to disguise his face in photos showing alleged abuse. But officials noted that pedophile offenders sometimes reveal their identities to win trust in child-sex offender circles, in hopes of getting access to other children or images.

Kvigne said Interpol was "very careful" in weighing the decision to launch the appeal. She said it was a "powerful tool" that should be reserved for only a limited number of cases.

"Our main concern is of course the safety of children," she said.

Among the risks, she said, are that an innocent person might be incorrectly identified, "and that's why we encourage people to call police if they believe they know who this man is."

She said people should contact their local police or Interpol, "but to take no action on their own." She also said she hoped the man would come forward to police himself.

[keithle1]

Consenting adults engaging in gay s e x is one thing.
No one''s business but theirs. What do you care what they do in their bedroom? Are they fornicating on your front lawn at high noon on a Sunday?

Adults having s e x with children is something else entirely. Got to lower the boom on them. SE Asia is where they''re going to go. That''s their "playground."
People take an interest in helping to catch these guys. I wouldn''t want my photo on the internet & people/police looking for me. Might make them think twice about doing this stuff. Maybe not.

[keithle1]

It''s an invasion of privacy to put his photo on here. He should get a lawyer. The poor, poor man.

Stop quoting your precious Bible, Jesus freaks. We didn''t come here for a sermon. Stop trying to shove Christianity down our throats.

If you had a gay son or daughter would you stand by & "praise the Lawd" as someone executed them?

[nonayabiness]

BRING THE DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL CHILD MOLESTERS!!


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Posted by underdogus at 11:31 AM : May 06, 2008

- I agree.

[swwils]

When they catch this dude waste him,dump him into a glacier somewhere.Know one will ever know,or care

[underdogus]

just look at that guy mug shot! typical WHITE CHILD MOLESTER!!...

[underdogus]

if you''re a black drug user you''''re a criminal, if you''re a white drug user all of the sudden it''''s an EPIDEMIC!!oh my God!!! Rehab!!! shesss...only in America

[underdogus]

guyfrompa45 he,he,....MOST CHILD MOLESTERS ARE WHITE!!!

[kailumego1]

guyfrompa45 "Go sell more drugs", typical Neanderthal logic, so I presumed you referencing blacks as drug dealers, well who do you think are the majority drug users, whites....

[kailumego1]

Google research on race and pedophilla, oddly enough there is no statistical information based on percentages.

Suspicious, considering there is considerable statistical data on African Americans imprisonment, juvenile delinquency, high-school dropout rates, and reading scores.

However, if you''re to believe every word postulated by the media, as most Caucasians do about blacks, then underdogus is correct pedophilla is predominate among white males.

You can''t pick and choose what is acceptable journalism, as long as it doesn''t smear whites, for you''re no better than the black folks, which you constantly harp about, as being subjectively biases.

And to be so ethically-grandiose to the point of stupidity doesn''t change the facts that there are certain criminal acts conducive to whites, as there are blacks.

And yes there are more blacks imprisoned, when taking into consideration per-ratio of population, however, literally there are more whites imprisoned.

And crimes that involve bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilla, etc. have been linked to white males, obvious you don''t keep up with "the child pornography rings", Internet porn involving young girls and boys, etc., which is funded by white males, not blacks.

[underdogus]

Seeks white Suspected Pedophile Preying On Young Southeast Asian Boys.....

[underdogus]

dump the dollar switch to the EURO!!!

[underdogus]

You shoud check your facts first.
Posted by guyfrompa45 check your gammar trailer trash..NEXT!!

[underdogus]

BRING THE DEATH PENALTY FOR ALL CHILD MOLESTERS!!

[underdogus]

truth hurts MOST CHILD MOLESTERS ARE WHITE!!!

[underdogus]

just call me UNDERDOG fighting for truth and justice,and the AMERICAN WAY now what is your problem?

[underdogus]

planet earth.....hello!

[underdogus]

do we have the death penalty for child molesters in the good old USA? no , why? answer: most child molesters are WHITE!!! rest my case b.astards!!

[underdogus]

The point is for no reason out of the blue Posted by guyfrompa45 at 10:38 AM : May 06, 2008
MY point is that if MOST CHILD MOLESTERS were black,asian,hispanic,korean,philipino,ALL of the ''WHITE" sob''s will be sceaming at the top of their lungs for the DEATH PENALTY!!!

[underdogus]

I say send him to the middle east and let Allah take care of him..
Posted by cornbiker most radical muslims are child molesters hmm? why aren''t you calling for the DEATH PENALTY FOR CHILD MOLESTERS!!!

[underdogus]

if you''re a black drug user you''re a criminal, if you''re a white drug user all of the sudden it''s an EPIDEMIC!! shesss...only in America