Red alert issued against Paedophile

Chennai, Nov 27 : A red alert has been issued against Dutch child sex offender Will Heum to ensure that he does not flee from India, media reports said on Friday.

“Immigration officers have alerted all airports across India so that Heum can’t flee to his home country- Netherlands- once he gets bail,” said a top immigration official on conditions of anonymity.

“The red alert has been issued keeping in mind that Heum has more than once expressed his desire to go back to Netherlands,” he added.

Meanwhile, Theo Noten, head of ECPAT, a Dutch child rights organization, told Times Now even if Heum manages to flee the country, he will have to face ‘tough consequences’.

“If Heum is extradited to the Dutch police, he will face the full extent of Dutch law which is tough on child pornographers,” Noten said on Friday.

On Nov 19, Heum admitted that he used children for ‘unnatural relations’ and also uploaded their ‘acts’ on the Internet, according to his confession statement submitted by the Chennai police at a Mamallapuram court.

“I used the children for unnatural relations…sex deprivation made me allured to young boys,” Heum was quoted in the statement.

The statement comes a day after Heum denied confessing his crime, while he was being sent to 15-day judicial custody on Nov 18.

"I didn’t confess any crime. This is too much. I'll go back to the Netherlands," he had said.

The 56-year-old was arrested on November 7 following an Interpol police alert. He is also accused of uploading child pornographic material on the Internet.

The case against Heum has been registered under the new IT Act, which came into force on October 27. If convicted, he will face a maximum punishment of seven years' imprisonment and Rs 10 lakh fine.

A 2002 case against Heum is also pending trial. In this case, he was accused of molesting 40 orphans at Little Home, an orphanage opened by him at Mamallapuram in Chennai.

Heum, who came to India 30 years ago and started "social work", stayed in Mamallapuram, where he befriended several children and started the orphanage.