Canadian Pedophile To Be Sentenced August 15

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Canadian to learn sentence in August for sexually abusing Thai boy

A British Columbia teacher who admitted he sexually abused a 13-year-old boy in Thailand and photographed the offence will be sentenced Aug. 15, a Bangkok court announced Monday.

Christopher Paul Neil of Maple Ridge, B.C., who worked as a teacher in different parts of Asia before his arrest last October, pleaded guilty in May to sexually abusing the Thai teen and faces up to 10 years in prison.

The 33-year-old Neil admitted through a translator that he took the photos, but said he did not post the pictures online.

He pleaded not guilty in early June to similar charges involving the teen's brother, who was nine years old at the time of the alleged offence. He faces up to 20 years in that case, which goes to trial on Oct. 7.

Neil became the subject of an international police search last year after Interpol released censored photos of him allegedly engaging in sexual acts with young boys from different parts of southeast Asia, including Cambodia and Vietnam.

The photos were found online in 2004, but the face of the perpetrator was digitally obscured by a swirl shape. Interpol was able to unscramble the images with the help of German police computer experts three years later, and circulated the pictures publicly.

Hundreds of tips were received and Neil was arrested 11 days after the Interpol appeal was launched.

Neil taught at various schools in Thailand, South Korea and Vietnam since at least 2000.

- CBC News (Canada)

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Canadian Christopher Paul Neil, right, walks past a prison guard upon his arrival at criminal court in Bangkok, Thailand Monday, June 30, 2008.

Canadian Christopher Paul Neil leaves the court room after his trial at the Bangkok Criminal Court June 30, 2008.

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Jul 01, 2008 04:30 AM

The Associated Press

BANGKOK–Canadian schoolteacher Christopher Paul Neil will be sentenced Aug. 15 for sexually abusing a Thai boy, when he was 13, and photographing the offence.

A Bangkok court announced the sentencing date yesterday for Neil, 32, arrested last year after a sensational international manhunt.

Interpol directed the search after hundreds of photos of Neil were found on the Internet, allegedly showing him engaging in sex acts with young boys.

He pleaded guilty May 12 to sexually abusing the Thai teen and faces up to 10 years in prison.

Neil, who has family in British Columbia, pleaded not guilty in early June to similar charges involving the teen's brother, who was 9 at the time of the alleged offence.

The trial in that case begins Oct. 7.

Neil at times appeared agitated with yesterday's court proceedings but later joked with his translator.

He refused to comment as he was led out of court dressed in a prison uniform and wearing ankle chains.

Neil was arrested in Thailand last Oct. 19, after the international police agency Interpol unscrambled swirled digital images from Web photos that obscured Neil's face in videotaped assaults on young boys. Neil admitted, through his translator, that he took the photos but said he did not post them online.

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