Christopher Neil was the rock star of the global network of pedophiles who prey upon vulnerable children in the developing world.
He was Mr. Swirl.
And like a lot of other pedos, he went to where the action was — Southeast Asia. Neil, from British Columbia, was eventually arrested, charged, convicted and caged.
That cautionary tale of years in a roach-infested foreign jail has not deterred like-minded sickos.
Why would it? Canada does little to nothing to discourage and deter child sex tourism where these freaks can sexually abuse and exploit kids with few recriminations.
In 1997, Canada changed its laws to reflect that a sex crime committed overseas would be treated the same as if it happened here. Pedos would not be getting on planes to exercise their perversions.
Or so they said.
Old pervert James McTurk — a retired Toronto postal worker who would be 87 years old if still alive — was nabbed in 2012 after returning from Cuba. His vacation photos featured him sexually molesting children.
It wasn’t his first go-around. He’d been convicted in 1995 for possession of child pornography and again in 1998 after cops confiscated videos of McTurk engaging in sex acts with young girls in Cuba.
Between 2008 and 2012, McTurk travelled to Cuba 31 times. No one said a thing. Not one eyebrow raised.
A now-retired cop friend of mind once said of pedophiles, “they can’t help themselves. They can’t stop. There is no known therapy that totally and permanently quells their urges.”
This brings us to Orville Mader.
Mader — believed to be in his mid-70s — was arrested Friday in the Philippines. The retired Kitchener teacher who later relocated to British Columbia is alleged to have sexually molested an 11-year-old boy.
However, even after being convicted in absentia for sex offences against a young boy in Thailand, and an earlier brush with the law for allegedly sexually abusing two boys in Cambodia, here’s Mader on the road again.
Someone, somewhere thought it was a good idea to let Mader go to the Philippines. A Scrabble tournament? Birding? Did no one think, “wait a minute”? Apparently, they did not.
But Mader could be forgiven for thinking he might once again get away with his vile escapades.
In the 2007 episode in Thailand, Mader paid 500 baht — about $15 – to have sex with an eight-year-old boy in Pattaya. The boy had been snatched from a shopping centre and a pimp paid him $3 to perform oral sex on Mader.
Mader was just ahead of the Thai cops and fled home to Canada. He was busted the second he got off the plane in Vancouver from Vietnam carrying only a laptop.
But luck, as it always seemed to be, was in the monster’s corner. A Canadian judge placed a number of conditions on Mader’s movements and activities but helped him along by slapping a laughable publication ban on his bail hearing.
Thai cops desperately wanted Mader back in Southeast Asia to face justice but B.C. authorities didn’t buy the evidence provided to them. So, here ya go Orville, here’s your passport.
The publication ban eventually lapsed and details emerged of Mader’s musings on his treasured laptop.
“He described boys coming into his room, his sexual preferences,” the Crown told the court. “He had eight boys over 11 days … including one tiny 11-year-old boy he called a ‘sweetie pie.”‘
Mader has long denied any wrongdoing.
But busted three times for child sex crimes? That’s some kind of coincidence, there mister.
The same old sex crimes cop also told me that “where there’s smoke there’s fire.”
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