18 foreigners wanted for child sex crimes

Immigration police checking listed names

By Wassayos Ngamkham

Immigration police have been asked to look out for 18 blacklisted foreigners, 14 of them Americans, who are accused of sexually abusing children, said the Crimes Against Children, Juveniles and Women Suppression Division. Uthen Nuipin, a crime suppression officer, said the individuals are wanted on charges of sexually abusing kids in their respective countries.

The 14 Americans are Victor Manuel Gerena, David John Sprong, John W. Parsons, Jon Savarino Schillaci, Edward Claire Reisch, Wayne Arthur Silsbee, Gary Lee St. John, James J. Bulger, Richard Steve Goldberg, Glen Stewart Godwin, Donald Eugene Webb, Elby Jessie Hars, Edward Eugene Harper, and Robert William Fisher.

The other four are Brian Michael Jones from Canada, Diego Leon Montoya Sanchez of Colombia, Jorge Alberto Lopezorozco from Mexico and Tokushige Manasanari from Japan.

Pol Maj Uthen said the list has been forwarded to the Immigration Police to see if any of the suspects had entered the country.

The pictures of the suspects will be posted on the division's website, he said. Some of the names also appear on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's most-wanted list.

These people have been declared persona non grata and will be deported if they are arrested, he said.

He said the country is deemed a haven for child molesters because of lax immigration rules.

''Moreover, the child sex industry is cheap and the people do not care much about this kind of sexual crime,'' he said.

Child molesters tend to apply for language-teaching jobs, so the police will ask school administrators to thoroughly examine the applicants' backgrounds, he said.

According to Pol Maj Uthen, an Englishman was recently arrested and extradited to face child molestation charges in his home country.

Meanwhile, a woman was arrested yesterday at a house in the Don Muang area on charges of procuring women for prostitution, police said.

Jamorn Hotboonruang, 31, allegedly duped young women into seeking jobs in Japan where they were forced into prostitution.

Each victim had been charged 1.5 million baht in travelling expenses and brokerage fees, police said.

The complaint was filed by a group of women who had been rescued from sex establishments in Japan.

Bangkok Post
Sunday January 28, 2007