A former Saxony headmaster convicted of serious child sexual abuse was captured in Cambodia over a year after he escaped. The 55-year-old man was arrested in the Asian country on March 6th and has been in custody in Dresden for three and a half weeks, as announced by the police in Görlitz.
The ex-headmaster had been sentenced to three years and one month in prison at the end of 2022 for abusing a 13-year-old student at a school library in Mücka, Görlitz district, May 2021. Prior to this incident, girls had made similar allegations against him in 2016 and 2018. However, due to lack of evidence, these proceedings were discontinued by the public prosecutor. Nonetheless, the case was reopened after the last incident.
Following his conviction, the man fled abroad with bookings for Cambodia. Despite being unable to extradite him from Cambodia to Germany, investigators found an alternative solution when his visa expired; he was arrested by local police on March 6th and subsequently flown to Bangkok in Thailand before being taken into custody by officers from the Saxony State Criminal Police Office and the Görlitz Police Department.