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From convicted criminals to fugitives from justice to suspected terrorists, English language classrooms worldwide are becoming havens from those who mean to exploit the TESOL opportunity for their own purposes. Happy Schools' Newswire intends to chronicle and expose this disturbing trend by linking to news stories from around the world.
- August 4, 2004: Convicted rapist arrested for lying about his criminal history to gain employment as an English teacher at a London language school.
- Jun 23, 2004: London language school owner, Paul Dalton, arrested at Heathrow Airport and charged in the murder of his wife.
- Jun 5, 2004: American fugitive Tristian Hamilton, accused of sexual assualt against a minor, is denied bond after being deported from China where he had fled to teach English.
- May 13, 2004: Australian pedophile William Brown commits suicide in jail cell after being sentenced to 13 years for molesting two Indonesian boys while teaching English in Bali.
- Mar 26, 2004: Richard Lando Sr. deported to the United States after fleeing to Cambodia to avoid prosecution for child sex crimes in America. This marked the second time Lando had fled abroad to avoid charges at home.
- Mar 9, 2004: English teacher from New Zealand arrested in Cambodia, charged with sexually assaulting boys as young as 12 years old.
- March 3, 2004: Craig Walker, who kidnapped his own children during a bitter custody battle with his ex-wife, apprehended in Brazil where he was using an assumed name and teaching English as a Foreign Language.
- March 1, 2004: American English teacher arrested in Cambodia, charged with sexually abusing girls as young as 10 years old.
- August 8, 2003: British pedophile David Christie is sentenced to nine years hard labour for sexually assaulting boys in his care after opening a home for orphans of the Ethiopian famine and then using it to give himself and his pedophile friends, one of whom was hired to teach English, access to children.
- June 14, 2003: David Sussman, a wanted pedophile and child pornographer teaching English in Costa Rica, is caught using a fake passport and subsequently discovered to be in possession of child pornography. He has been deported to Florida to face child sex abuse charges.
- August 26, 2002: American Eric Rosser, the first child sex fugitive to make the FBI's 10 most wanted list, was extradicted from Thailand to face child sex abuse charges in the United States. He was arrested on his way to a TESOL certification course. He was planning to get a job teaching English to young children in Northern Thailand.