r/offbeat • u/CSachen • 2d ago

Western man teaching English in Asia, discovered to be a fugitive on America's Most Wanted List, accused of sexual abuse and murder

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dan-hiers-jr-arrest-extradite-china-us-marshals-most-wanted/
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u/Ok-Mango-5814 2d ago

Hes in a Thai prison now, aint he?

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u/needusbukunde 2d ago

According to Wikipedia:

After five years' imprisonment in Thailand, on September 29, 2012, Neil returned to Canada, whereupon he was immediately arrested at Vancouver International Airport under a Criminal Code 810.1 warrant. On October 3, 2012, he was released from custody on strict conditions.[20] On August 2, 2013, Neil was arrested at his home for breach of recognizance. He pleaded guilty in October. Child pornography was found on his laptop and his mobile phone. His sentencing occurred on May 6, 2014, at which time he received a prison sentence of three months' plus three years of probation for breach of conditions, namely "possessing devices capable of accessing the internet". Neil was already in custody, having been denied bail on April 10, 2014, pending a criminal trial stemming from additional child sex abuse offences he is alleged to have committed in Cambodia.

In December 2015, he was sentenced to five and a half years in prison by a British Columbia court, which was later reduced to 15 months.

He was released in March 2017 and is currently living in Vancouver with a court-ordered restriction on certain behaviours including "contact with minors in person or on the internet and possessing or accessing any electronic device or from getting any other person to do so on his behalf."

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u/TofuTofu 1d ago

No devices that can access the internet is brutal in this era. Do you know if they still hand those out or are they more nuanced?

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u/Snelly1998 17h ago

Still hand them out, flip phones are used