Canadian Charged With Running Sex Ring From Thailand

[beer monkey]

Canadian charged with running sex tourism ring from Thai home



December 16, 2008

A Canadian charged with running a sex tourism business pairing international travellers with young boys at his Thailand home was arrested in Britain yesterday.

John Wrenshall, 62, was nabbed by British police and U.S. immigration officials at Heathrow Airport in London early yesterday morning. A Canadian citizen living near Bangkok, Mr. Wrenshall was wanted on a variety of U.S. charges laid in August.

The scale of the alleged sex tourism ring may be unprecedented in international law.

"This is a rarity - thankfully - there aren't many people like John Wrenshall [accused of ] running a sex tourism ring out of their homes in Thailand," prosecutor Lee Vartan told The Globe and Mail in an interview last night.

"There were boys as young as four, six, eight, nine .... there were a range of ages. Different clients preferred different ages," he said. The prosecutor added that "Wrenshall, from the perspective of federal law enforcement, really was the organizer of all this."



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[38nholding]

nonsense.

[747man]

Hope this SCUM Rots in "The Nick" and gets Bummed Himself whilst inside,See how you like it Dirty B*******

[izzix]

Man charged with sex tourism led two lives
Computer expert, teacher had prior convictions
Stephane Massinon, Calgary Herald; Calgary Herald
Published: Thursday, December 18, 2008

The former Calgary man who is the suspected head of an international sex tourism business out of Thailand led a double life that came crashing down on him when he decided to return to Canada.

In one life, according to his resume, John Charles Wrenshall, 62, was a computer systems business owner who would later dedicate himself to teaching English in Thailand. But in the other, he is accused of sexually exploiting young boys dating back to the early 1970s, was convicted in 1997 of molesting eight choir boys and most recently he is accused of essentially pimping young Thai boys for the pleasure of foreign visitors.

In the late'60s and early '70s, Wrenshall was a University of Calgary sociology student with an interest in the burgeoning world of computers, writing a master's thesis called "Communication Patterns in the Computer Room."

But trouble with the law started even before he published his thesis. In 1970, he was convicted of sexually assaulting boys and was given a suspended sentence and put on probation for two years.

In 1971, he was already at work and founded Socio-Systems Ltd., which he describes as a market research and survey company on his resume. Twelve years later, he founded Rinax Systems Ltd., a Calgary computer systems company that is still in existence.

While his resume says Wrenshall left the company in 1997 -- by then it had grown to 16 staff and revenues of $1.7 million -- to pursue travel opportunities, the reality is he was charged with indecent assaults on choir boys from the Cathedral Church of the Redeemer.

Wrenshall lured eight boys to the university and his Calgary home telling them he was conducting a study on preteen boys' sexuality and they were sexually assaulted. He would later admit to doing the same to at least another dozen boys, but was never charged.

Terry Fullerton, choir director at the church from 1973 to 1995,who now lives in British Columbia, said he doesn't want to say much about Wrenshall for fear of bringing up old wounds, but he remembers that Wrenshall's sentence of one year in jail seemed light.

"You get the judiciary who I think make silly mistakes like that to somebody who obviously wasn't the slightest bit interested in any kind of changing of his behaviour. That's very sad," said Fullerton.

He hasn't seen Wrenshall, nor heard from him, since the day Fullerton told Wrenshall he had to leave the choir immediately. At the time, the tenor singer was unmarried and had no children, recalls Fullerton.

Reached by telephone Wednesday in Washington, Wrenshall's sister also declined to comment.

"I have had no contact with him for years," she said.

Wrenshall left Rinax and headed to Bangkok, Thailand, an area with a reputation for easier access to child prostitution.

Once in Thailand in 1999, he worked at a hospital designing curriculum and course materials, according to his resume, as well as at the AUA Thailand Language Center in Bangkok. He would stay with the AUA until recently.

His former boss at the language centre, director Adul Pinsuvana, said he taught English at the school and then later took on a supervisory role in the adult school.

Computer expert, teacher had prior convictions
Stephane Massinon, Calgary Herald; Calgary Herald
Published: Thursday, December 18, 2008

Wrenshall describes himself as an excellent teacher and good public speaker. "Dedicated to the needs of my students, I understand the difficulties of learning a foreign language," he writes on his resume. He boasts of having a good knowledge of Thai culture and said his interests include classical and choral music, scuba diving and travel.

But American authorities say Wren-shall wasn't in Thailand too long before he was up to old tricks.

The indictment from a New Jersey grand jury states that Wrenshall was paid by visitors who came to his Bangkokarea home to have sex with young Thai boys. He is also alleged to have produced graphic child pornography.

In October 2008, Wrenshall had had enough of Thailand and informed his boss he would resign in December, saying he wanted to access Canadian pension and health benefits by returning to Canada.

"Foreigners are always like that. They work for a few years and sometimes they leave, sometimes they come back," said Pinsuvana.

His decision to leave was his undoing; he was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport. The U.S. Department of Justice hopes to extradite him from England, and Wrenshall now sits in an English jail waiting to face trial in New Jersey on charges of conspiracy to engage in sex tourism, aiding and abetting sex tourism, conspiracy to produce child pornography. production of child pornography and distribution of child pornography.

witH files from riCHard CutHbertson,

Smassinon@theherald.canwest.com

[jackspratt]

Whilst I have no truck with Wrenshall and his sordid activities, once again I wonder WTF it has to do with the USA?

Surely it is Canada (of which he is a citizen), or Thailand (where he was located) that should be bringing these charges - not the World's Policeman

[wazza]

Maybe he had a ticket to USA and it might have contavened their laws that way, before he even got to Canada.

Bottom line is , its 1 less creep off the streets of Thailand.

[jackspratt]

I doubt it wazza - if he had a ticket to the US I am sure they could have waited till he got there, and then no have to worry about extradition from the UK.

[wazza]

Agree Jack

these international treaties for arresting / restraining the travel itineries of Paedaphiles etc are complicated and do allow the inbound country to take responsiblity and hand back to the countries that have an interest in their prosecution etc....even if no offence is committed in that arriving country.


Eg an Australian with a sex offenders record, is allowed to leave Australia, however the inbound country is alerted to this convicted scumbags arrival and generally they get turned around at immigration. Australia can charge an Australian citizen for overseas sex offences with underage kids with the Australian courts able to have the charged heard and any conviction served in Australia.

[izzix]

just as well as the Canadians are very soft on these paedos ..

[jackspratt]

Is 10 years very soft?

[Pakawala]

Jack, I think it's much softer than being banged in the bum at the age of 8!!

[tamada]

There's all sorts of ways the US authorities could be involved; personal website or email hosted on US servers, US customers, financial transactions ie. credit card charges in or via the US banks. They don't need much incentive IMHO.

Sometimes being the 'World Policeman' isn't all about illegal wars, pointless sanctions and supporting dodgy despots.

[kdvsn]

Whilst I have no truck with Wrenshall and his sordid activities, once again I wonder WTF it has to do with the USA?

Surely it is Canada (of which he is a citizen), or Thailand (where he was located) that should be bringing these charges - not the World's Policeman

While I'm sure that your interest goes no deeper than to complain about the US, according to the indictment he was involved in a "Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Tourism" together with a person in New Jesey, USA. That's why the US maintains that they have jurisdiction.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/pres ... ctment.pdf

Maybe he broke Candian laws too. ButI haven't seen any reports that the Canadians were paying any attention to his activities in Thailand.

[jackspratt]

Whilst I have no truck with Wrenshall and his sordid activities, once again I wonder WTF it has to do with the USA?

Surely it is Canada (of which he is a citizen), or Thailand (where he was located) that should be bringing these charges - not the World's Policeman

While I'm sure that your interest goes no deeper than to complain about the US, according to the indictment he was involved in a "Conspiracy to Engage in Sex Tourism" together with a person in New Jesey, USA. That's why the US maintains that they have jurisdiction.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/press/pres ... ctment.pdf

Maybe he broke Candian laws too. ButI haven't seen any reports that the Canadians were paying any attention to his activities in Thailand.

Thanks kdvsn.

Did you see any reports that the US authorities had passed on to the Canadian authorities, the information they had on Wrenshall? So the Canadian authorities could take appropriate action against one of their citizens.

And you are right - I do have a basic complaint about the US assuming the extra-territorial jurisdiction it has, all around the globe ie the world's policeman. But I guess you gotta keep all those "special agents" occupied.

Other countries, with limited exceptions, apparently do not see the need to act in such a manner.

[BKKSTAN]

[quote][/quote]The indictment from a New Jersey grand jury states that Wrenshall was paid by visitors who came to his Bangkokarea home to have sex with young Thai boys. He is also alleged to have produced graphic child pornography.

American grand jury indicates that a crime was commited in a USA jurisdiction!

[jackspratt]

Conspiracy can occur anywhere, Stan.

The crime(s) were committed in Thailand, by a Canadian who (from reading the indictment) communicated with an American by computer.

I have no doubt that the indictment, issued in New Jersey, was valid under US law. My beef is the fact that the US has taken it upon itself to have such laws - I am not just talking about sex tourism, child pornography etc.

[BKKSTAN]

Your beef is the USA plays policeman for the World!I wish they didn't.I wish the UN was a viable organization.I wish that the other countries would stop looking for leadership from the USA and then criticizing us so much!Oh well

[jackspratt]

That's a good start to 2009 Stan - we agree on something