In his 17 years on the Cambodian police force, Keo Thea has seen a lot.
But nothing quite prepared the deputy chief of Phnom Penh’s anti-human
trafficking police for the raid on the home of German national Karl Heinz
Henning in August.
At Henning’s apartment, tucked away in a leafy neighborhood favored by
foreign aid workers in the Cambodian capital, Keo Thea sifted through the
country’s largest-ever haul of hardcore child pornography. Amongst the bondage gear, handcuffs, whips and battery-operated sex
aids, Keo Thea’s unit found soft cuddly children’s toys. There was also
video and photographic cameras, and 18 videotapes, each one hour long,
depicting the S&M-style rape and torture of young local children by the
tall, gaunt 61-year-old and another German, Thomas Engelhardt, 42, who was
arrested a day later. Eight computer hard drives were also bagged for the court.
