Sex Offender Stuck In Deportation Cell

[Chang_paarp]

AAPFriday July 14, 05:18 PM

Sex offender stuck in deportation cell

Convicted Australian child sex offender, Bradley Pen Dragon, is languishing in a grim and overcrowded Thai deportation holding cell more than two weeks after his release from a Thai prison following a royal pardon.

Pen Dragon, 46, was let out of Bangkok's Klong Prem prison on June 30 where he had served 10 years of a 15-year sentence on child sex offence charges dating back to 1993.

He was immediately taken into custody by immigration officials who want to deport him back to Australia.

Pen Dragon was one of about 70 foreign prisoners released from the prison after receiving amnesties to mark the 60th anniversary of the accession of Thai King Bhumipol Adulyadej.

Thousands of Thai inmates were also freed.

Thai immigration officials said Pen Dragon would not leave Thailand until Australian officials or his relatives and friends in Australia paid the one-way air fare.

"He is ready to go. It is not a problem here (at the detention centre), it is in Australia until someone donates the money for the (air) ticket," the Thai official said.

Thai immigration police said while Pen Dragon was ready to go, he was still to receive an air ticket and for travel documents from the Australian embassy.

Thai officials had earlier expected him to be deported this week.

The special travel document is a substitute for a passport and would allow Pen Dragon travel only to Australia.

Most of the people being held at the immigration detention centre are illegal immigrants from Burma and Cambodia.

It is also the final staging post for foreign prisoners facing deportation after release from prison.

The 12 cells are largely holding pens measuring some 60 square metres with each holding between 70 to 100 prisoners.

They are largely open areas and quite cramped, said an official from a European embassy.

"It is far worse then the cells at Klong Prem general prison," where Pen Dragon had been held, she said.

"They are allowed to exercise just once a week and make one telephone call a week," the official, who assists foreign prisoners, said.

"They are locked up 24/7," she said.

Foreign prisoners have been known to remain at the cells for months or even years at a time before receiving clearance to leave Thailand, many without sufficient funds for the air transport.

Originally from Queensland, Pen Dragon was arrested in Thailand in 1993 on blasphemy and pornography charges.

He was later found guilty of threatening, beating and raping three girls, one aged 12 and two aged 8.

Reports at the time told of how the children had wept during their ordeal.

Queensland Premier Peter Beattie earlier this month called for Pen Dragon to be placed on the national sex offenders register as well as constant monitoring by authorities should he return to his home state.

http://au.news.yahoo.com//060629/2/zlmn.html

[redrus]

No-body wants him just kill the <deleted>.

redrus

[leftcross]

hope he rots and dies in there. surely the other inmates would be interested to know what he was there for??

[atlastaname]

The predictable responses from those who have replied leaves me a little sad. Yes the guy did wrong but he didn't kill anyone , beat them with a hammer, stamp on their head (unlike what football fans do every week) and he has spent 10 years living in the most appalling conditions and now faces a life looking over his shoulder for a media who will pursue him until he dies.

I think thats more than enough punishment.

People tend to go wayyyy wayyyy overboard in their condemnation of such people , often i think because they are afriad to do otherwise for fear of anyone suspecting they may have sympathy with such people. Yes its a terrible crime but there are much worse ones that are far less condemned . No lives were lost so keep it in perspective.

[Lacoste]

The predictable responses from those who have replied leaves me a little sad. Yes the guy did wrong but he didn't kill anyone , beat them with a hammer, stamp on their head (unlike what football fans do every week) and he has spent 10 years living in the most appalling conditions and now faces a life looking over his shoulder for a media who will pursue him until he dies.

I think thats more than enough punishment.

People tend to go wayyyy wayyyy overboard in their condemnation of such people , often i think because they are afriad to do otherwise for fear of anyone suspecting they may have sympathy with such people. Yes its a terrible crime but there are much worse ones that are far less condemned . No lives were lost so keep it in perspective.

No he did not kill anyone but he tore the lives of three young children apart.

beating and raping three girls, one aged 12 and two aged 8.

LET HIM ROT!!!

[redrus]

The predictable responses from those who have replied leaves me a little sad. Yes the guy did wrong but he didn't kill anyone , beat them with a hammer, stamp on their head (unlike what football fans do every week) and he has spent 10 years living in the most appalling conditions and now faces a life looking over his shoulder for a media who will pursue him until he dies.

I think thats more than enough punishment. (what a joke that is)

People tend to go wayyyy wayyyy overboard in their condemnation of such people , often i think because they are afriad to do otherwise for fear of anyone suspecting they may have sympathy with such people. Yes its a terrible crime (understatement of the freakin century) but there are much worse ones that are far less condemned . No lives were lost so keep it in perspective.

You seem to convey sympathy with the thing concerned. He showed no sympathy, why should anyone else.

Crimes against Children, for me, are the worst of all crimes and should be dealt with in only one way. Children are the most defenceless, they know nothing of life apart from beautiful innocence then, some <deleted> like this rips it away from them. Let the "predictable" responses continue.

Most football fans, to some degree can look after themselves, this was not a football match.

I believe your comment was meant to provoke, ok I have bitten, now please don't post <deleted> like that again.

redrus

[tourleadersi]

The predictable responses from those who have replied leaves me a little sad. Yes the guy did wrong but he didn't kill anyone , beat them with a hammer, stamp on their head (unlike what football fans do every week) and he has spent 10 years living in the most appalling conditions and now faces a life looking over his shoulder for a media who will pursue him until he dies.

I think thats more than enough punishment.

People tend to go wayyyy wayyyy overboard in their condemnation of such people , often i think because they are afriad to do otherwise for fear of anyone suspecting they may have sympathy with such people. Yes its a terrible crime but there are much worse ones that are far less condemned . No lives were lost so keep it in perspective.

Simply put there ae some crimes that just burrow deep into the conciousness of most people out there and are unforgiveable. This is one of them.

The fact that he has had to endure a decade of discomfort for his crimes seems rather mild when compared to the three lives that he has ruined.

Whilst I won't scream 'let him rot!' I cannot find any corner of my soul that has any sympathy for this man. As far as I am concerned he is a ghost. When he stepped outside of soceity he chose to cease to exist within what we call right and wrong.

[redrus]

TourleaderSi, an answer worthy of Suegha.

Wish i could have put it like that.

redrus

[listenup]

He should have his nuts chopped off.

[Pink Mist]

These sex offender posts piss me off basicly because they go nowhere and solve nothing

He is stuck in another jail for however long, forever would be good but these threads deteriorate rapidly so am closing now