An e-mail sent to CBC News from Kia Pearson, who claims to know alleged pedophile Christopher Neil (Oct. 17, 2007 9:31:39 a.m.) I hope this helps. I am not sure what part of Canada he is from. I worked with him in Kwangju Foreign School where he taught middle school English to the 8th graders. He was a [conscientious] worker and very interested in drama. I am interested in drama, so I was happy to share my ideas with him. He said he enjoyed being on stage, and making people laugh. Said he used to be shy when he was younger, but found drama by chance as a way to entertain people, and help him overcome his shyness. He loved to sing in [Karaoke bars], and was always trying to drag us to sing [together] with him. He sang karaoke songs with passion, and was funny as he did so. Girls in our company laughed heir heads off because he was a real ham. If you didn't like Karaoke, and you went in with him you were sure to get entertained. He transferred his dramatic skills to enhance his singing ability. I and two other teachers spent a lot of time with Chris drinking and just doing things [together]. He loved to drink with the teachers, and talk. Not being a big drinker I had to decline the drinks after a while. He could sure talk though while drinking. [His] favourite topic was religion of all things. He had a lot of knowledge about it of course as that is what he studied. Back in our [apartments], he would always come and visit me at any time of the night. I always left my door open, so he would just walk in. Conversation seemed to gravitate to-wards religion a lot. How he was [dissatisfied] with organized religion and how organized religion had lost God. He said he loved God, and quoted bible scriptures about what god really is. I am from a [Christian] background, so I was quite interested to hear what he had to say. I understood and in a way I believed this point of view too. Chris was attracted to girls and enjoyed their company. His whole manner lightened up when the girls would show up. He was always on the look out for pretty girls. He could be very critical of people I noticed and at times read things into people which I new weren't true. I sometimes had to patiently explain how things he assumed about certain individuals were just not so. He was a fanatic for correct English [pronunciation] and had no patience for a non native speaker who knew English well but was too lazy to pronounce words correctly. Boy did he fume about these [types] of individuals. I felt like saying OK OK Ok, but I just waited for him to calm down. I also [remember] him saying that he was impressed with the level of his students. He brought this topic up quite often, saying that certain students were
way ahead of others their own age not just knowledge wise, but more mature as well. Chris could get by with Korean. Our Korean [proficiency] levels were about the same, and I found I had a lot in common with him with regards to Korean culture. We ate [together] at Korean restaurants, and he was able to order food in Korean better than I could. It was sure nice to sit with a fellow expat who was also comfortable with things Korean, unlike a lot of other expats in this part of the world. Chris was also very discerning about people. He did not think much of Western men who married Korean women. He said only a certain type of Westerner would do that, and he didn't think much of those who did. He knew who married up when they married a Westerner by looking at the Korean relatives. A Westerner who married down he said had low class in laws. I was shocked when I heard that the Chris I knew wasn't the real Chris. I was told to check the Interpol sight, and to my great horror saw him as a wanted [pedophile]. I was in shock for quite a while as you can well imagine. In a daze in fact, because I had spent so much time with him. I never in my wildest imagination would have thought that of him. I am still having doubts that the persons shown in the Interpol photos are really him. One is a dead ringer for him, but I just know. He is a [Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] or what. Anyway I am still in a [quandary]. Now I identified him as having the [pseudonym] "Peter jackson" on daves ESL Cafe. I knew it was him, because I corresponded with him before he started at gwangju [foreign] school. He told me as such that that was his [pseudonym] when we met. I felt that I had to [identify] him on the ESL Cafe, because it was already headlines, and that to not do so would be just as serious. I knew him, and in the back of my mind it might show him as a not abnormal individual. Now the stuff that he wrote although a little suspicious does not really raise any red flags about the crimes he has been accused of. Ok pornography. Big deal. Who hasn't seen [pornography]? The [stuff] about getting a police check before coming to work in Korea. Hell all that shows is that he is streetwise. What the hell records would he have anyway. if he did he wouldn't have been applying anyway. A lot of people have expressed sympathy for the guy on reading his posts, and a lot of morons have read into the posts their own morbid fascination for things of this nature.