Contact Admin. In Granada in , there was a local bar nicknamed Pedophile Perch. The porch overlooked a main street, and everyone knew that this was the place where the foreign pedophiles hung out. Since then, many things have changed in Nicaragua. Pedophile Perch still exists, a little less obtrusive, and now, on a side street, but most expats know where it is located.
Yet, with the arrest and deportation last month of Eric Toth, a former 3rd grade teacher in a private school in Washington D. Eric Justin Toth Caught in Nicaragua. In , I wrote a post to a Nicaragua expat forum big mistake! Instead of creating an awareness of the increasing problems in Nicaragua with foreign sex predators, the discussion if you can even call it a discussion led to pointless posts with statistics thrown around like fast balls.
The gist of the garbage slung on the forum was blaming the locals for their cultural silence, their need to prostitute themselves for their families, and personal attacks on me for broaching the topic of foreign sexual predators. Here are a few jewels from this sparkling conversation:. This thing does not happen here. Please keep your stupid opinions to yourself; because you do not know what you are talking about when you post. Sex predators find easy prey in Nicaragua.
Yet, reading some of the comments posted to his articles, made me wonder why some expats and foreign tourists still continue to defend this horrendous act? I have seen one underaged girl trying to work here and she had no takers. They have no handlers and do not even seem professional with few exceptions.
They tend to be mothers with children to feed. Its also true that the Nica guys pay them very little or nothing at all. Im sure there are some crimes committed involving under aged girls and trafficking but for the most part its locals committing them.
