The Philippines has been noted as being a global source of child exploitation once more in 2022. While the authorities do routinely bust cybersex dens there is a lot more they are not doing to protect children in the Philippines. Take the case of Frank Orville Mader. His story is a little convoluted but is very important to understanding why the Philippines remains a global hub of child sexual exploitation.
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In 2004 Frank Orville Mader, a Canadian, was arrested in Cambodia for allegedly abusing children.
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A Canadian man was charged with debauchery in Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Friday for allegedly sexually abusing two boys aged 11 and 14.
Court prosecutor Nget Sarath charged Orville Frank Mader, alleging the 51-year-old had the boys fondle him. Under the anti-human trafficking law, Nget Sarath said, Mader could face 10 to 15 years in prison.
Waiting outside the courtroom Friday, a calm, quiet Mader said he did nothing wrong.
Mader, who said he was a teacher in Japan here on vacation, allowed the boys to stay at his rented house because they appeared to be homeless, he said. During the past few weeks, he said, he allowed up to 20 boys to stay there at a time.
He and some of the boys engaged in “sex play,” he said, but he did not have oral sex or sexual intercourse with any of them.
“It was all very tender and gentle,” Mader said. “It was just normal. The boys were expressing their sexuality and I felt honored to be part of that…. They initiated it.”
“I don’t understand how something tender could be the same as murder,” Mader said, responding to the possible prison term. “I am not a bad person.”
On Thursday, police said they had arrested Mader and raided his house Tuesday, where they found three boys who claimed Mader paid them to have sex with him. Earlier the same day, police said, they had questioned two other boys who also said they had sex with the suspect several times.
The story begins that Mader was a teacher in Japan on vacation in Cambodia. He rented a house and allowed up to 20 homeless boys live with him. He engaged with them in sex play calling it normal and saying they initiated it and he "felt honored to be part of that."
In 2007 Mader was arrested in Canada over charges that he had sexually abused boys in Thailand. The charges against him in Cambodia had apparently been dropped.
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Police in Thailand have issued an arrest warrant for the second Canadian in three weeks alleged to have had sex with underage boys in the Southeast Asian country.
Lieutenant Sompol Nakkumpan told The Canadian Press the arrest warrant for Orville Frank Mader, 54, was issued after the father of an eight-year-old boy alleged that his son had been sexually abused by the Canadian.
Police say they believe he abused at least three other boys.
Immigration police at border crossing points and airports have been alerted in case Mr. Mader attempts to leave the country.
In 2004, Mr. Mader was arrested by police in Cambodia on charges of sexually abusing two boys, ages 11 and 14, but the charges were apparently dropped.
Sitting outside the courtroom awaiting his hearing at the time, Mr. Mader told The Cambodia Daily he was a teacher in Japan and was in Cambodia on vacation. He acknowledged that he allowed boys, sometimes as many as 20 at a time, to stay at his rented house because they appeared to be homeless.
His occupation is listed as "teacher" on the records, but neither the B.C. College of Teachers nor the provincial Ministry of Education has records of him being registered to teach at public or independent schools in the province.
Even the Globe and Mail seems nonplussed about the charges against Mader in Cambodia being dropped. He continued to claim to be a teacher but there is no record of him being a teacher in Canada which begs the question of how he became a teacher in Japan. Is there even a record of him being a teacher in Japan? In an interview Mader's neighbor offered a little insight.
Rosemarie Laburda is the mother of Susan Laburda, a 50-year-old piano teacher and organist who is listed as a part-owner of Mr. Mader's house. In an interview from her North Vancouver home, the elder Mrs. Laburda said she and her daughter have known Mr. Mader for more than 20 years. She said the man never taught when he lived in B.C. and only began showing aspirations to teach when he decided to move overseas.
"Orv went to Japan for a job. He thought he would better himself," she said, adding that "the travelling ... he would do during his vacation visits in other countries."
Before he left for Japan, Mrs. Laburda said, Mr. Mader delivered newspapers for a living and did other delivery jobs.
Mrs. Laburda would not say how her daughter met Mr. Mader, who was born in Kitchener, Ont., but has lived in B.C. for at least two decades. However, she did say the two became friends shortly after he moved there.
"He needed a place to be when he moved to Vancouver. I think he was engaged, as a matter of fact. Somehow that engagement fell apart," she said, adding: "I know he's been a mailman at one time. He's done lots of different jobs."
Canada Post said there is no record of Mr. Mader having ever been employed by them, but it's possible he was a temporary worker.
Mrs. Laburda said her daughter and Mr. Mader were never in a relationship, adding her impression is that Mr. Mader is gay.
Mrs. Laburda went on to say that since Mr. Mader moved overseas, he's made only a few trips home, including one after the 2004 pedophilia charges levied against him in Cambodia were dropped.
"When the first thing happened, [Susan]would worry because he was charged. But then she was glad to see that he was let go. She's convinced that he's innocent, that he would never do anything like that. I was never too fond of him. I just had a feeling," she said.
Even though it appeared that the Cambodian charges against Mader had been dropped that was not the case. He was convicted in absentia.
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A man convicted in absentia of sex crimes against children in Cambodia has been allowed unrestricted freedom in Canada, even though the Crown expressed concerns when he was arrested that he was a danger to children.
While a judge granted a restraining order against Orville Mader meant to protect children back in 2007, that order has been allowed to lapse.
Now, it's unclear whether the man who has not been charged with offences is Canada will be free to travel to other countries.
Mader faces a 15-year jail term in Cambodia for sex crimes against children and was accused of sex crimes against a 13-year-old boy in Thailand, but travelled back to Canada shortly after the charges were laid.
When he arrived in Vancouver in late 2007 carrying nothing but his laptop computer, he was arrested and held.
At the time, the Crown said investigators were working on sex-tourism charges against Mader. In the meantime a judge granted an order under Section 810.1 of the Criminal Code when prosecutor Wendy van Tongeren Harvey said there were concerns he was a danger to children.
"He's attracted to not only boys, but young boys. We're seeking conditions where children are safe," she told the provincial court judge in 2007.
Details of the court proceedings that day were protected by a publication ban that has now expired.
Among his many restrictions, Mader was ordered to stay away from children and anywhere they might congregate, to stay off the Internet, to give up his passport and to report on a regular basis to the authorities near where he was staying in Surrey, B.C.
While the order was renewed against him annually in 2008 and 2009, it wasn't renewed in November 2010.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Ed Boettcher said police did a lot of work on the Mader file both in Canada and internationally.
"There came a time in 2009 where investigators met with Crown and said this is what we've compiled, Crown looked at it and said it doesn't meet the standards of Canadian evidence."
He said satisfying the evidence threshold would have taken a massive effort.
Under its regulations, Passport Canada is allowed to revoke travel documents if the person has been charged with an indictable offence in Canada or a similar offence abroad.
Mader is presumed innocent because no charges will be laid here in Canada, and McConaghy said there would be no reason his passport wouldn't be returned.
"Which I believe is in error ...," he said.
Because the Canadian government was not able to satisfy "the evidence threshold" to convict Mader he was not charged with a crime and his passport was returned. Thus he was able to travel abroad and continue engaging in sexual relations with boys in Southeast Asia.
In October 2015 he was arrested in Manila for human trafficking.
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| https://www.philstar.com/metro/2015/10/16/1511502/canadian-held-human-trafficking |
A Canadian man was arrested for human trafficking after he was caught with a half-naked child on his bed in his condominium in Manila Thursday night.
Frank Orville Mader’s arrest stemmed from a tip the National Bureau of Investigation received on Oct. 9 that minors were being abused and drugs were sold in Mader’s unit, NBI deputy director Joel Tovera said.
NBI agents coordinated with the condominium’s security officers, who accompanied them to Mader’s unit.
Tovera said they have coordinated with the Department of Social Welfare and Development and the Canadian embassy.
This arrest was noted in the 2016 accomplishment report of the Philippines' Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking.
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Frank Orville mader, notorious Canadian pedophile, arrested in Taguig for child sex trafficking
One would think a "notorious Canadian pedophile" caught in the act with a boy in his hotel would be sentenced to prison or at least blacklisted from ever entering the Philippines. Neither of those things happened because in 2022 Mader was arrested in Laguna for molesting a boy.
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A Canadian man was arrested by the police for allegedly molesting an 11-year-old boy in Biñan, Laguna.
A report by the Philippine National Police (PNP) said the victim was accompanied by his father in filing a complaint for sexual abuse against Orv Mader, 65, a retired teacher.
The PNP said the boy revealed the alleged molestation during a confrontation between the suspect and the victim’s family at the barangay (village) hall.
“Thus, upon knowing the incident the father of the victim sought assistance from the barangay tanod (watchmen) which eventually effected the arrest of the suspect after [being] positively identified and pinpointed by the victim,” the spot report stated.
Mader is now facing complaints for violating Republic Act 7610 or the “Special Protection of Children Against Abuse, Exploitation and Discrimination Act.”
How was Mader allowed back in the Philippines after being previously arrested for human trafficking? Misbehaving foreigners are routinely blacklisted yet apparently this man was allowed to go free and return to the Philippines with no problems. And where is he now? Is he being detained or has been allowed to leave the country? There are serious questions that need answering here. Most important of all is how is it that this man has been convicted of sex crimes with children, is known to be a "notorious Canadian pedophile," and yet is able to travel the world seeking more victims with no problems. Who is financing this guy?
As I noted before the Philippine authorities do bust cybersex dens and even arrest foreign pedophiles. Take the case of UK national John Crotty.
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A 64-year-old convicted sex offender from the United Kingdom was arrested in Misamis Occidental for allegedly running a child porn website, the Bureau of Immigration (BI) said on Thursday.
In a statement, BI Commissioner Norman Tansingco said the suspect, identified as John Crotty, was collared in his rented home in Tangub City last September 15, after officers found evidence of him posting obscene photos of underage Filipino women across his social media accounts and website.
“The sex offender was reportedly jailed for nine years in the UK but moved to the country shortly after his release from prison,” Tansingco added.
Mahanan further pointed out that the suspect arrived in the country to go into hiding on February 6, and has since overstayed his visa.
With this in mind, the BI said Crotty is now facing deportation and was placed under the BI’s blacklist, effectively banning him from re-entering the country.
Will Crotty really be banned from re-entering the country? What guarantee do the people have that such will be the case and that the ban will be enforced? If Frank Orville Mader was banned he was certainly able to gain entry. Perhaps there is something more nefarious at hand here. Perhaps not. As it is the Philippines is poised to remain a global hub for children sexual exploitation for years to come.
