FBI: 100s have contacted us about pedophile case

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN and TAMI ABDOLLAH

Hundreds of people have contacted the FBI about a teacher suspected of drugging and molesting boys during a four-decade career at international schools on four continents, greatly expanding the potential number of suspected victims.

The FBI said last month that William Vahey had molested at least 90 boys, whose photos were found on a memory drive stolen by his maid. The bureau said Tuesday that it has now "been contacted by several hundred individuals from around the globe wishing either to reach out as potential victims or provide information in the ongoing investigation."

Special Agent Shauna Dunlap said officials wanted as many people as possible to call or contact the FBI through its website in order to receive counseling and provide information about a man who the bureau calls one of the most prolific pedophiles in memory.

Vahey killed himself at age 64 after evidence of molestation was found on a memory drive stolen by a maid in Nicaragua.

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In this Wednesday, May 7, 2014 photo, a security guard mans his post at the entrance of the American Nicaraguan School in Managua, Nicaragua where U.S. citizen William James Vahey worked as teacher. Vahey killed himself on March 21, two days after agents in Houston filed for a warrant to search a computer thumb drive that belonged to Vahey. The storage device contained pornographic images of at least 90 boys, ages 12 to 14, who appeared to be drugged and unconscious, according to the FBI. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

[MrScorpio]

1. That maid is a hero

Unfortunately, I doubt that the authorities will ever get to the true depths of that man's depravity.

[2naSalit]

2. and by

killing himself he has, yet again, robbed his victims.

[okaawhatever]

3. I wish we could drone pedophiles like this guy. I could totally sign off on that. After a trial nt

[mackerel]

4. You have to be diligent when it comes to your children. A lot of people make the mistake

of thinking a private school is safer than a public school.

[PeteSelman]

5. A shame he waited so long to do the right thing.

He should have done it decades ago.

[yurbud]

6. it's a shame we fill our prisons with petty drug criminals instead of guys like these

[PeteSelman]

9. Indeed.

[yurbud]

7. this is one crime where a mental health approach would be better for public safety

if they are ever released from custody, they will return to doing this.

The only way to keep them off the streets permanently is civil commitment until they are no longer a threat to children, which is when the offender is dead.

[davidpdx]

8. I'm in Korea and they have made the laws stricter here after the American guy

with the whirly pictures was caught teaching here. I can't remember the guy's name, but apparently he fled Korea before they could get him and they caught him somewhere else and hauled him back to the US. There have been other instances as well. Lately it's been pretty quite.