Peter Martin Ebel serial Rich child abuser did you meet him?

Peter Martin Ebel was a serial child abuser whose most frequently used aliases were Ed Scott and Alan Scott but he has also used a number of aliases for his books – Reynolds Locke, Edward Alan Scott, Ed Scott and James Congdon. He also poses as a Doctor or educator. He was born in the US about 1959, the son of the Vice President of Marketing of US Corporation General Foods during the 1950′ and 1960’s.

He is currently, finally, in jail in the US. He had travelled extensively and may have left a huge trail of victims over Europe including England, France, Malta, Ireland and Albania as well as Libya in North Africa, and probably 14 or 15 other countries including of course the United States.

He has chosen many boys aged 11-14, and obtained valium and codeine on bogus prescriptions. He is American but apparently can do an excellent upper crust British accent. He comes across as very likeable and children gravitate to him easily.

Inspired by Leonid Kamaneff and his “schools on boats” project “L’Ecole en Bateau” [9]Ebel set up two flight schools for children, SkyBlazers and CloudChasers. He  arranged flight training programs for kids 12 and over.

Kameneff also was an abuser of children for many years but was finally sentenced to 12 years prison in 2013.  There were three boats, the “Karrek Ven” a fishing vessel, the “Paladin” and “Bilbo”. I have included some information about Kameneff in Appendix 1 after the timeline on Ebel.

When did Ebel meet Kameneff? Did Ebel sail on Kameneffs boats? Can you help? Did you meet Ebel in England or in any of the other countries.

Please contact me on Ebel@cathyfox.33mail.com  if you knew of him, as a researcher from America and myself are trying to piece together his movements.

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Timeline for Peter Martin Ebel

1948 approx. Peter Ebel Born

Peter grew up in Chappaqua, NY  and the family was regularly host to people like Roy Rodgers, Lucille Ball and Danny Thomas

1964-6 approx. Ebel patient at psychiatric Hospital in New York

1966 approx. When discharged, Ebel came to U.K., apparently under the auspices of the BAEF (British American Educational Foundation) as the London Director.

1968 May Ebel, aged 20, arrested by Scotland Yard police in England for making a move on a 15 year old boy, charged with “indecent assault” on a minor under 16.  He received three years’ probation and served no time. Probably Ealing area.

1968- ? All over Europe: 22 or 23 countries. Much time in Marseille and Malta and a couple of years in Ireland and Libya.

1976: St. Croix Catholic School in Stillwater hires Ebel posing as Edward Alan Scott a math teacher. The school also shares physical education and other courses with a nearby public school, Stillwater Junior High School.

1976/7 “Scott” befriended Klein and his family and taught him how to fly an airplane. Meanwhile, posing as Dr. Peter Martin Ebel, he was duping a pharmacy in Maplewood into filling bogus prescriptions for Valium and codeine, according to charges brought later. Suspicions were raised at both schools when the nurse at Stillwater Junior High received a note through “Scott” from a Dr. Ebel asking that Klein be excused from taking a shower because he had been diagnosed with scoliosis.

Don Hovland and Steven Studer, then principal and assistant principal at Stillwater Junior High School, and Sister Kathleen Foley, then principal at St. Croix, denied the request and confronted Scott about his credentials near the end of the 1976-77 school year.

1977 Summer School officials find his credentials fraudulent and terminate him.

1978 approx.  Ebel took a boy to England on a supposed trip to treat him with growth hormone drugs not available in the US, He was in fact one of three boys taken to England with their parents’ permission, all of whom “returned with drug dependency problems,” according to a US police incident report. The children, according to the report, refused to talk with authorities about the trips or their relationship with Ebel.

1978: Ebel reportedly returns to the United States after a trip to England, this time posing as a doctor working for the “Nuclear Regulatory Agency.”

1979: School officials suspect Scott is posing as “Dr. Ebel.” Scott was booted from the school after one year on the job and subsequently charged in Ramsey County District Court on June 10, 1979, with two felony counts in the drug case. 1979 Jun 10 Ebel is charged with two felony counts of filling out drug prescriptions.

1980 A Stillwater family that had rented an apartment to Ebel posted $500 bail on his behalf. He left town during a pretrial hearing in early 1980, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest.

1980 Jan 16 Ebel fails to appear for a pretrial hearing.

1980-99: Authorities have no idea of his whereabouts.

1987 Soldier of Eden published in England, under the pen name of James Congdon. It was a supposedly non fiction account of an orphaned American boy who became an Arab freedom fighter in Libya.

1999-2001 Ebel, claiming that he heads an Albanian-based nonprofit organization and conducting a growth development research project on Albanian males, makes contact with a private boys academy in Georgia, US. He persuades school officials to build an exchange program in Albania.

2001 Sept 7 Ebel is detained in Los Angeles in the company of three Albanian boys and is released after his laptop computer and several compueter discs are confiscated pending a forensic examination.

2001 Sept 10 U.S. Customs Service agent Leo Lamas uncovers several images of the genitals of several naked prepubescent boys, including one of the boys who accompanied Ebel on the trip. Ebel asserts the pictures are part of his research.

2001 Sept 20 Dr. Laura Ticson of the Vulnerable Child and Sexual Assault Center in Los Angeles says the images are undoubtedly child pornography [US legal terminology]

2001 Sept 28 Ebel is arrested and charged with possession and manufacture of child abuse material

2002 Jun 10 Ebel pleads guilty to one count of manufacture of child pornography.

2002 Aug 19 Ebel sentenced.

2005 Jul 10 [3] “Hiding in Plain Sight: Tales of an American Predator,” trailer

2010 Jul 21 [5] Full text of “Peter Ebel – Certification as sexually dangerous”

2013 Mar 23 Paris Match [10] 12 years in Prison for Kameneff

2013 May 9  Twin Cities [1] Ruben Rosario: This child predator will stay where he belongs

2013 Jun 15 Twin Cities Rubén Rosario [2] : Civil commitment laws for sex offenders cause a judicial dilemma

2013 Jul 16 Twin Cities Rubén Rosario [6] Peter Martin Ebel, ex-Stillwater teacher and fugitive pedophile suspect, back in jail

2015 Aug Cathy Fox Blog [9] Boats and Child Abuse

Date unknown Ebel was also an author and the BBC was doing a production of one of his books (non-fiction). Then they discovered he had fabricated the entire story and cancelled it.

[Although individual statements above are not referenced, all information comes from the links below]

Appendix 1 [The link numbers in this section refer to the Boats and Child Abuse post [9]]

Leonid Kameneff / Kamenev

Leonid Kameneff was a psychotherapist and set up Ecole en Bateau in 1969.  Between 1969 and 2002, more than 400 boys and around 60 girls took part, leaving their families for long journeys, some of which lasted over a year as an alternative to mainstream education [39].

The first complaint was in 1971 and subsequent complaints made in the 1990’s. Kameneff was imprisoned for two months in Martinique. Released, he took flight into international waters before being arrested in Caracas, Venezuela in 2008. He was extradited to France a few months later, and indicted for rape and sexual assaults on minors under 15 years. In 2012 in a rare ruling, the French state was found guilty of “denying justice” to the complainants by taking so long to bring a trial, and was ordered to pay large sums in compensation to the alleged victims. There were three boats, the “Karrek Ven” a fishing vessel, the “Paladin” and “Bilbo”.

Kameneff was sentenced to 12 years in jail. The two co-accused were Bernard Poggi (also Poggi-Vérignon), 60, sentenced to 6 years. Abused as an 11 year old himself by Kamenev, who was then his teacher, Poggi returned as an instructor on the boat aged 20 and started to abuse boys then. Jean-François Tisseyre, 58, who also worked on the boat, received a suspended sentence of 5 years.  Their co-accused, a former student who was a minor at the time, was acquitted [21] [40] 

Kameneff appears to have written a book “the court read several excerpts from a book published in 1979, when Leonid Kamenev told in terms sometimes very raw sexuality of young people on board” [41]

Most of this paedophile network is still at large. [43a] [43b]  More information You Tube Kameneff [23] Paris Match [21]    Spotlight comments [42]  Azimuth Trust was linked to French ‘boat schools’ paedophile ring [43] Pédocriminalité et déni de Justice à Saint Malo[43a] Pédocriminalité et déni de Justice à Saint Malo autotranslate [43b] and Le Monde autotranslate [258]  HT @snowfaked

[The link numbers in this Kameneff section refer to the Boats and Child Abuse post [9] ]

Please note that victims of abuse may be triggered by reading this information. These links are generally UK based.

• The Sanctuary for the Abused [A] has advice on how to prevent triggers.
• National Association for People Abused in Childhood [B] has a freephone helpline and has links to local support groups.
• Other useful sites are One in Four [C]
• and Havoca [D].
• Useful post on Triggers [E]  from SurvivorsJustice [F] blog.
• Jim Hoppers pages on Mindfulness [G]  and Meditation [H] may be useful.
• Hwaairfan blog An Indigenous Australian Approach to Healing Trauma  [J]
• Survivors UK for victims and survivors of male rape or the sexual abuse of men [K]
• Voicing CSA group [L] helps arrange survivors meetings in your area

Links

[1] 2013 May 9  Twin Cities Ruben Rosario: This child predator will stay where he belongs http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_24028645/ruben-rosario-this-child-predator-will-stay-where

[2] 2013 Jun 15 Twin Cities Rubén Rosario: Civil commitment laws for sex offenders cause a judicial dilemma http://www.twincities.com/ci_23463076/ruben-rosario-civil-commitment-laws-sex-offenders-cause

[3] 2005 Jul 10 “Hiding in Plain Sight: Tales of an American Predator,” trailerhttps://youtu.be/vDWcoFlk6Q0

[4] IMDB “Hiding in Plain Sight: Tales of an American Predator,”http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471004/

[5] 2010 Jul 21 Full text of “Peter Ebel – Certification as sexually dangerous”https://archive.org/stream/288059-ebel-certification/288059-ebel-certification_djvu.txt

[6] 2013 Jul 16 Twin Cities Rubén Rosario Peter Martin Ebel, ex-Stillwater teacher and fugitive pedophile suspect, back in jail http://www.twincities.com/ci_23472972/peter-martin-ebels-ex-stillwater-teacher-a nd-fugitive

[7] California Central District Court Peter Ebelhttp://www.plainsite.org/dockets/ljyrnvef/california-central-district-court/usa- v-ebel/

[8] British American Educational Foundation http://www.baef.org/about.php

[9] 2015 Aug Cathy Fox Blog Boats and Child Abusehttps://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2015/08/20/boats-and-child-abuse/

[10] 2013 Mar 23 Paris Match 12 years in Prison for Kameneffhttp://www.parismatch.com/Actu/Societe/Ecole-en-bateau-12-ans-de-prison-pour-Kameneff-234960