The disgusting piece of less-than-human rubbish Interpol has been looking for was captured in Thailand this morning, and now we can all sit back and hope there is a punishment that will do him justice.

Canadian pedophile Christopher Neil has been preying on children ... okay, in a nod to my journalistic training, I'll add the word 'allegedly' here, but he's guilty as sin, and this is a blog, not the NY Times ... for years.

Scenes of him sexually abusing very young Cambodian and Vietnamese boys have been circulating on the Internet for a very long time ... long enough for many of our children to have been potential victims ... and up until the manhunt went public he was employed as a teacher of children, most recently in South Korea.

His arrest is a tale of determined police work and international cooperation that has me wondering why this isn't happening more often. Hey! If they can do it in this case, let's see how many other child rapists they can bust.

In today's Taipei Times there is an article looking at pedophile that starts off with an Internet exchange between two foreign teachers that was intercepted by Cambodian police; they were discussing "how easy it is to pick up mostly homeless boys between 10 and 14 years old and bring them to their apartments for sex."

And it's not just street kids falling victim to creeps like this ...

Teaching English is especially popular because jobs are easy to get, and the position carries with it a level of authority that makes it difficult for the children and even their parents to question abuses.

"The children are sitting ducks. This is their teacher. This is someone you trust and tells you what to do," Prober [Beyond Borders president Rosalind Prober] said. "You very quickly get trapped. There is such a level of control and power by a teacher. It's multiplied when it comes to a foreign teacher."

Also this week, a 41-year-old Russian man has been arrested in Sihanoukville for having sex with at least six underage girls, the youngest being around twelve.

This slimeball is in the country with permission from the government to develop a tourist resort on Koh Puos, an island half a mile off the beach in Sihanoukville.

Moving along to other less vile news ...

Remember the killer cow I wrote about last week? Well, it will kill no more.

Seems the owner figure that the best way to deal with the wandering brick-wall-like bovine was butcher it before it took any more lives.

The cow had been in the custody of the victim's family ever since causing the death of a motorcyclist last week, but they gave up hope of compensation and returned the cow to its owner a week ago. Now, it's burger ... or something.

Funny how a story that would normally be considered stomach-churning hardly causes even a bit of a retch after those at the beginning of the post ...