Pedophilia is widespread among US military officials and high-level diplomats going to Southeast Asia, claims investigative journalist Wayne Madsen.

Three Americans have been deported to the U.S. from Cambodia after being caught in a major police sting operation against pedophiles.

The men are all alleged to have engaged in sex with children.

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http://rt.com/Top_News/2009-09-02/us-pedophiles-tourists-capture.html

World renowned pianist and principal conductor of the Russian National Orchestra Mikhail Pletnev has been released on bail after facing charges of child molestation in the city of Pattaya, Thailand.

Pletnev, 53, was apprehended at Euro Club and Restaurant, a venue in the resort city of Pattaya, which the pianist co-owns. Pletnev was later escorted to his residence, where police discovered a number of child pornography videos, Pattaya Daily News reports.

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http://rt.com/Top_News/2010-07-06/pianist-pletnev-pedophilia-thailand.html

A Floyd County jury has found a former Clarksville chiropractor guilty of rape, child molesting and child seduction for actions covering a period of more than three years against a girl beginning when the victim was 13 years old.

The Superior Court 3 jury delivered its verdicts against Robert M. Nolan about 3:30 a.m. Friday after deliberations that began about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Judge Maria Granger said.

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http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100702/NEWS02/7020373/Chiropractor+convicted+of+rape

New York (CNN) — Her mother named the little girl Nevaeh, “heaven” spelled backwards. Jennifer Buchanan says her daughter always was a little bit of heaven to her.

Nevaeh Buchanan was 5 when she was kidnapped on May 24 last year; her body was found in a shallow grave on June 4.

A fisherman found Nevaeh’s body along the bank of the River Raisin near Monroe, Michigan, about 10 miles from the apartment she shared with her mother and grandmother.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/05/grace.coldcase.nevaeh.buchanan/

WORCESTER – A former day care worker from Leominster who claimed in his journal that he molested dozens of children has been sentenced to up to 45 years in prison.

Juan Nazario was sentenced Thursday in Worcester Superior Court after pleading guilty to multiple charges, including 10 counts of child rape.

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http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1265312&srvc=rss

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – One man is under arrest, accused of raping his 4-year old family member. The little girl is now hospitalized at Baystate Medical Center with what police describe to be serious, but non life-threatening injuries.

Detective Mike Chapin told 22News the victim was sexually assaulted at her home at 693 Carew Street sometime Saturday evening.

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http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/hampden/illegal-alien-charged-with-child-rape

After a wave of child rapes in the past two years, top national police officials yesterday decided to set up separate task forces in police precincts throughout the country to handle such crimes.

“All officers in command should make the prevention of child sex abuse top priority,” said Commissioner General Kang Hee-rak during an unprecedented, five-hour conference, which was called to discuss the child rapes and other recent incidents that have damaged the police’s reputation, including allegations that five Yangcheon police officers tortured suspects during police investigations. It also discussed the internal division within the police chain of command that started when a former senior superintendent demanded Kang step down for poor management.

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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2922772

FOUR counts of rape and four separate counts of child abuse charges were filed in court against a man, who allegedly sexually abused two young girls.

The suspect’s identity is withheld since his alleged victims were relatives of his live-in partner.

The victims were cousins.

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http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/metro/view/20100705-279277/Man-faces-rape-child-abuse-raps

A primary school assistant who was caught with more than 21,000 indecent images of children has been jailed for seven years and 10 months.

Syd Beg admitted downloading the images at his home in Glasgow’s Maryhill area between January 2000 and January 2010.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/10508503.stm

OCEAN PINES — A Bishopville teenager faces child abuse charges after an Ocean Pines mother allegedly recorded the teen’s attacks on her daughter on videotape.

Bishopville resident Carleigh Renee Kufchak, 19, has been charged with first- and second-degree child abuse, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment after a June 25 incident with a blind 8-year-old girl she was baby-sitting.

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http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100703/NEWS01/7030342/Baby-sitter-charged-with-child-abuse

Four Americans, nabbed in a two-year investigation into an international online child pornography ring, were sentenced in federal court in Indiana Friday, according to the federal Department of Justice.

Michael Barrata, 49, of Sacramento, CA, Scott Van Dorp, 51, of Nashville, IN, William Watkins, 39, of Lake Worth, FL, and March Beren Reeder, 33, of Harrisburg, PA, were part of a sophisticated, password-protected Internet bulletin board group, which allowed members to meet like-minded individuals with a sexualized interest in children, to discuss that interest and to trade images of child pornography, authorities said.

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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/32622/20100705/pornography.htm

BOULDER – Former Rocky Mountain High School counselor Brad Boda was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual abuse on a child.

Boda in April pleaded guilty to molesting children when he was a church counselor in Longmont in the late 1990s and early 2000s. “These children have suffered for 16 years,” Judge Gwyneth Whalen said in pronouncing the sentence.

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http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20100702/NEWS01/7020332/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02