"Maine has just been rated third worst in the country for sex trafficking. The Bangor Daily News says Maine is a top source for the entire East Coast to procure children for sex abuse. Those who know Maine's history are not surprised.

Joel Davis, a Columbia University student with a reputation for volunteerism and extensive work with non-profit organizations that aid women and children, left many people in shock when he was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography and other sex crimes.

Nepal has become a target for paedophiles acting under the cover of aid work or philanthropy.

KARTIKE, Nepal: When Peter Dalglish, a lauded humanitarian worker, built a sleek cabin near a Nepalese village of rutted roads and hills ribbed with rice paddies, local residents knew virtually nothing about him.

KARTIKE, NEPAL - When Peter Dalgish, a lauded humanitarian worker

KARTIKE, Nepal — When Peter Dalglish, a lauded humanitarian worker, built a sleek cabin near a Nepalese village of rutted roads and hills ribbed with rice paddies, locals knew virtually nothing about him.

The recent arrest of a prominent Canadian aid worker on suspicion of child sexual abuse in Nepal points to a critical need for fundamental reforms in the humanitarian aid community to protect vulnerable children and women from sexual predators, says an expert on gender-based violence and ending child sex abuse.

Peter Dalglish, 62, a high-profile humanitarian worker, was arrested at his home near Kathmandu last year and was convicted in June of sexually abusing two boys aged 12 and 14. The boys were at his when police detained him.

A former London lawyer who left the legal world more than 30 years ago to become an expert in international humanitarian work with street children, efforts that earned him the Order of Canada, has been convicted of sexually abusing kids in Nepal.

On the afternoon of July 8, there was a commotion outside the usually quiet white brick-and-cement Kavre District Court.