A former headmaster convicted of serious child sexual abuse was captured in Cambodia more than a year after he escaped. The 55-year-old man was arrested in the Asian country at the beginning of March and has been in custody in Dresden for three and a half weeks, as announced by the police in Görlitz.
The former headmaster of a school in Mücka in the Görlitz district had been sentenced to three years and one month in prison at the end of 2022 for serious sexual abuse of children. The incident occurred in May 2021 when he abused a 13-year-old student in the school library.
Prior to this incident, schoolgirls had made similar allegations in 2016 and 2018, but the proceedings were discontinued by the public prosecutor due to lack of evidence. However, the case was reopened after the last incident.
Following his conviction, the man fled abroad. The investigation uncovered flight bookings to Cambodia and information that he had opened a guesthouse there. Unable to extradite him from Cambodia to Germany, investigators found an alternative solution. When his visa in Cambodia expired, he was arrested by local police on March 6th and subsequently flown to Bangkok in Thailand. Officers from the Saxony State Criminal Police Office and the Görlitz Police Department took custody of him there.
