Pedophile case just tip of the iceberg for Thailand

Thai police, who ended a global manhunt with the arrest of a Canadian pedophile suspect last week, are looking for dozens more foreign suspects, mostly Germans, who may be hiding in the country, a senior officer said.

Police regularly sift through the red light districts of Bangkok, the notorious beach town of Pattaya and the island of Phuket for Westerners police in their home countries had issued warnings about, said Major-General Wimol Powintara, head of the child crime police.

"These are men, young and old, who love to have sex with little boys," Wimol said as he flipped through a folder of photographs of 50 white males supplied by the German police about a year ago along with their names and dates of birth.