Why Was Notorious Canadian Pedophile Frank Orville Mader Allowed to Return to the Philippines?

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. 

https://english.cambodiadaily.com/news/canadian-faces-allegations-of-pedophilia-38214/

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. 

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-man-wanted-by-thai-police-in-latest-child-sex-abuse-investigation/article18148383/

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.

That is not very insightful testimony from the woman who is listed as a part-owner of Mr. Mader's house. She does not say why she was "never too fond of him."

Even though it appeared that the Cambodian charges against Mader had been dropped that was not the case. He was convicted in absentia. 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/restrictions-lifted-on-man-convicted-of-sex-crimes-abroad-1.596581

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. 

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. 

https://aseanactpartnershiphub.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2016-IACAT-Annual-TIP-Report.pdf

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.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1677192/canadian-man-nabbed-for-allegedly-molesting-boy-in-laguna

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. 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1672638/bi-nabs-convicted-uk-sex-offender-in-misamis-occidental

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. 

After all These Years the Philippines Remains Number One in Child Sexual Exploitation

The Philippines has led the world in child sexual exploitation for a number of years. 2022 is no different. 

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/853913/philippines-leading-in-child-sexual-exploitation-says-remulla-after-meeting-un-rapporteur/story/

The Philippines is leading in child sexual exploitation, Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla said on Thursday.

Remulla thus told reporters after he met Mama Fatima Singhateh, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children, who paid him a courtesy call.

Asked about the status of online sexual exploitation in the country, Remulla said, "We’re No. 1 in the world."

"We're number 1 in the world. This should be gone. The Marcos administration is making efforts to stop the Philippines’ status on being the leading country in child sexual exploitation,” Remulla said.

Remulla said he gave Singhateh "an official letter" to tell her what the Philippines was doing to combat child sexual exploitation.

"Actually, we've declared war on this. It's the first thing we did since the inception of the Marcos regime," Remulla said of the government's campaign against child sexual exploitation.

Now, it is true that one of the first acts of President Marcos was to declare a war on child sexual exploitation. But who cares when there has been a war on child sexual exploitation for several years? Is Remulla more concerned about fighting child sexual exploitation or with touting Bongbong Marcos as a savior of the children?

United Nations Special Rapporteur Mama Fatima Singhateh on Thursday bared that the Philippines remained to be a source and place for child trafficking, sale, sexual abuse, and forced marriage and labor, among others.

In a news conference, Singhateh presented the preliminary findings of her 11-day visit to the Philippines.

She said there was a lack of explicit legal provision in the Constitution to penalize the exploitation of children for travel and tourism.

The purpose of the constitution is to delineate how the government functions. There are laws on the books penalizing the exploitation of children in the Philippines and this is later acknowledged in the article.  

She said the tourism industry lacked information to prevent sexual exploitation.

The Department of Tourism (DOT) said there's a law to prevent child abuse in the country, especially in the tourist destinations, according to “24 Oras” report on Thursday.

The department said they also have training in the DOT-accredited resorts and hotels to capture the perpetrators.

It added that there is also a hotline to immediately contact hotels and resort personnel.

Singhateh goes on to make several recommendations one of which is to see this problem holistically. 

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/12/08/2229470/un-expert-urges-philippines-focus-tackling-sexual-exploitation-children-tourism-too

The UN expert observed that while there are a lot of focus on the online exploitation of children, the attention on matters related to sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, and through transactional sex “has not been adequate.”

“Sexual abuse and exploitation should be seen holistically,” said Singhateh, who served as The Gambia’s justice minister.

“I’m highlighting sexual abuse and exploitation in the context of tourism and travel, and in transactional sex because I did not hear the government talk about it. If the government is not talking about it, that means interventions that are being used are not focused on that area,” she added.

Why does the Philippines remain number one in the world for child sexual exploitation after all these years? Why do foreigners either travel here for sex or solicit women online to abuse their children on camera? Why do Filipinas sell their babies on Facebook? Why are authorities so inept at stopping these crimes? 

A while back I wrote about a case where the authorities knew a woman was running a cybersex den with children yet refused to arrest her because she stopped for a while during the pandemic. 

Wednesday’s raid stemmed from an anti-online sexual exploitation operation conducted last 2020, in which the arrested individuals told investigators about the female suspect’s illegal activities, too. 

Ibo said they were about to entrap her back then. However, lockdowns and mobility restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic apparently prompted the suspect to halt any online sexual exploitation activities. 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-pandemic-lockdown-prevented-police.html 

That kind of incompetence is shocking. As far as the trafficking of children goes, especially in regards to illegal adoption, the incompetence is even more shocking. 

Last year, he said his agency examined about 10 cases of commercial adoption of children. The case numbers have been "steady" in recent years, but that is because the NBI does not have a unit dedicated to tackling the crime. 

Aguto said that if there were investigators dedicated to this kind of crime, the case numbers would probably shoot up.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/12/why-do-filipina-women-sell-their-babies.html 

It is not known exactly how widespread this problem of illegal adoption is because the "NBI does not have a unit dedicated to tackling this crime." If they actually started looking then the number of cases would likely increase exponentially. Amazing.

It is true that sex trafficking operations are routinely busted in the Philippines. Some involve children and others involve adults. But nothing has changed over the six years since the infamous 2016 UNICEF report tagging the Philippines as the number one global source of child pornography. 

http://www.manilatimes.net/philippines-is-no-1-global-source-of-child-pornography/267148/

I have written about online child sexual exploitation several times over the years on this blog. It seems like nothing has changed. I certainly have nothing new to add.  Online exploitation of children is a billion dollar family business and there is a culture of silence and impunity that allows it to happen. And God forbid we start discussing other topics such as the global elite and their predilection for the young as testified by the Epstein case. Who knows how deep the rabbit hole goes and what role the Philippines plays in that world? It would be folly to place the blame on poverty. There are plenty of poor folks who do not descend to such depravity as pimping their children.

Online Sexual Child Abuse in the Philippines is a Billion Dollar Family Business

What can one say about this story?  I don't even know how to introduce it so let's dive right in.

https://philippineslifestyle.com/raped-online-british-sentence/

A British man who paid to watch abducted Filipino children be drugged and raped online has been sentenced to 21 years in prison. 

According to police, Alan Porter – who has visited the Philippines for 30 years – had also arranged to rape street children during future trips to the country. 

According to police, he was even found with a suitcase full of chocolate bars, ready to entice children on his next visit. 

The amount of evil in those few sentence is shocking. A man who has been visiting the Philippines for thirty years has been paying others to film themselves raping children so he can watch via the internet and on his next visit he was planning to rape street children himself. He even had a suitcase full of chocolates to lure them.

At first one would have to agree that it is a very good thing this man has been put away. 

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17770276.immensely-dangerous-paedophile-behind-bars/

The court heard Porter had travelled to The Philippines – where he has a Filipino wife and step-daughter – on numerous occasion over the past 30 years. 

He also had a previous conviction for inciting the distribution of indecent images of children, which dated back to 1999, the court heard. 

Between 2015 and 2017, Porter contacted various sources in the Philippines to take children from the streets and engage in “sex shows” for him to watch online. 

In his messages he also asked to engage in sexual acts with several children during future trips. 

These included a 15-year-old girl whose virginity he was offered for £280. 

When asked if he wanted to try sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl, Porter replied “yeah, why not?” 

When asked whether he preferred young boys or girls, he replied “both hehe”. 

Porter, who used the email address porterbigboy@btinternet.com, requested children with particular physical features to suit his desires. 

Prosecutor Rachel Beckett said: “When told that some of the children were 17 or 18, he asked if there were children younger than that available.” 

He also requested “rape and drug films”. 

He transferred money online to his sources, on some occasions as little as £20, who then sexually abused the children and filmed it for him to watch.

But then you read the details of the case and suddenly realise that this man was not alone. While he was arrested by the UK police somewhere in the Philippines is a man who has been raping little children for about P1200. It's not as if the UK coordinated a sting operation with Philippine authorities and let the man fly to the Philippines and then the PNP nabbed him and his accomplice at the airport. Not at all.

The case came to the attention of the police on February 17, 2017, when an anonymous letter and a memory card were sent to Durrington Police Station in Worthing. 

The letter said Porter had been going to the Philippines for the past 30 years and there had been “talk of rape and drugging street children on his next visit”, and grooming of various children “as young as seven”. 

Police started to investigate and, less than a month later, a relative of Porter’s paid him a visit after his father died. 

During the visit Porter logged into his Facebook on his relative’s phone. 

It became clear later on he had failed to sign out of the website and his relative was able to see his discussions about abusing children. 

She sought advice from police and Porter was arrested on April 5 at his home address in Onslow Drive, Ferring. 

Officers found half-packed suitcases of chocolate, a heavy-duty nylon rope, plus two alarm clocks and a coat hanger that he used to disguise hidden cameras to film his abuse.

An anonymous letter with a memory card and forgetting to sign out of Facebook led to his downfall. But that is only HIS downfall. There is not mention of coordination with the PNP or the NBI or the DOJ to nab his accomplice. In fact this story did not even show up on any mainstream Philippine news sites but only on Philippinelifestyle and a few UK news sites.  

The official statement from the Sussex police is not any more helpful. Every news story is basically regurgitating that statement. The detail about his having a wife is missing from that statement but that is irrelevant because this man had a contact, whether his wife or not, in the Philippines who was more than willing to drug and rape street kids for his viewing pleasure and that rapist is still at large. 

Filipinos are not above abusing their own children to earn a few pesos from overseas sickos.

https://philippineslifestyle.com/online-abuse-arrests-philippines/

About 170 people have been arrested in the Philippines for the online abuse of children since the beginning of September. 

These arrests have led to the filing of human trafficking charges against the suspects and the conviction of at least 46 traffickers, the International Justice Mission (IJM) said in a statement today (Friday, October 12). 

The IJM, an organisation that campaigns against the online sexual exploitation of children, commended the efforts of Cebu Vice Governor Agnes Magpale and the Department of Justice (DOJ). 

As we reported earlier this month, both Magpale and the DOJ were instrumental in bringing a couple from Cordova town, Cebu, to justice for exploiting their own children.  

The court was told how the couple forced their six children to undress and pose naked in front of a web camera. Overseas ‘clients’ would pay from 1,000 to 5,000 pesos for each ‘show’.

Sexual abuse of children has become a depraved family business.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/live-streaming-child-sex-abuse-family-business-philippines

Now, the United Nations says, there are tens of thousands of children believed to be involved in a rapidly expanding local child abuse industry already worth US$1bn. 

In some areas, entire communities live off the business, abetted by increasing internet speeds, advancing cameraphone technology, and growing ease of money transfers across borders. 

And while perpetrators used to download photos and videos to their hard drives – providing authorities with a virtual paper trail and usable evidence – criminals have found anonymity in encrypted live-streaming programs. 

Stephanie McCourt, the south-east Asia liaison officer for the UK’s National Crime Agency, said the Philippines provided a perfect storm to allow the crime to develop, with its entrenched poverty and high level of internet access for a developing country. But there is one thing that she said was absolutely key: a widespread knowledge of the English language. 

“They can communicate with offenders. After we’d been scratching our heads, the penny dropped,” she said. “That’s not to say that it won’t move to other countries … There is probably a huge amount we don’t know.” 

It is hard to estimate the size of an industry involving small anonymous payments, roughly $5-$200 a show, conducted in people’s homes and mostly operated by families rather than large crime syndicates. 

“We think that what we are seeing, what we are dealing with, is a small part of what is out there,” she said. “It is big money. Big business.” 

The number of ongoing live-streaming criminal cases in the Philippines is rising, from 57 in 2013, growing to 89 in 2014, and up to 167 in 2015. 

But those numbers belie the true scale, according to Det Supt Paul Hopkins, the head of the Australian Federal Police team in Manila who has spent the past two years investigating the crime. Wearing a short-sleeved, Filipino-style shirt, he described the size of the trade as “monstrous”.

Big money. Big business. An industry worth US$1bn. And that is from 2016. The problem has continued to expand so that the Philippines has been declared by UNICEF as the number one global hub for online child pornography.

https://www.rappler.com/nation/191219-philippines-top-global-source-child-pornography-unicef

“Child pornography is a billion-dollar industry, and Filipino children are the ones being traded and exploited online. Children who are made to perform sex acts in front of a web camera will never get their childhood back. We must all work together to protect our children,” Unicef Country Representative Lotta Sylwander said.

A billion dollar industry! That is the verdict from a 2017 UNICEF report which seems to be the latest. But has that changed? Is it worth any less? Are children at any less risk since then? NO! The article above about 170 Pinoys being arrested for abused is from October 2018 and the following stories are mostly from 2018:

Go ahead and applaud the arrest of this sicko pervert from the UK who paid to watch children raped online. But realise he is just the tip of a billion dollar iceberg. And don't play the blame game. Filipinos do not have to abuse their own children. They do not have to rape street kids for the pleasure of white men in far away lands.  They choose to do so. Don't come to me with your excuses about poverty either. Plenty of impoverished people do not sexually abuse their children to strangers online.

As long as Filipinos are willing to sell themselves and their children to white men this evil business will continue to exist.