Australian rescuing abused children in Thailand By Tim Barlass Electrician Tony Kirwan established Destiny Rescue in 2001.
A charity set up by a former Queensland electrician now living in Thailand has begun targeting Australian paedophiles, using its own surveillance teams and co-operating with the Australian Federal Police officers posted there to bring child abusers to justice Destiny Rescue was founded in 2001 by Tony Kirwan and has grown into an internationally recognised organisation dedicated to saving children enslaved in the sex trafficking industry. After helping in the arrest of a dozen paedophiles from other countries, it is now focusing on Australians. 
"The idea that Australians can go over to Thailand and run amok and get away with it without any consequences ... our vision is to end this in our lifetimes," Mr Kirwan said.
Two alleged paedophiles from Australia are being monitored by local workers for the charity, with an arrest expected in one case before the end of the year.
Mr Kirwan, a former electrician from Cairns, said one man had been tracked down to a brothel where he is regularly having sex with an under- age girl.
"It took us about a week to be in the brothel at the same time as him and to learn his routine but now we know there's definitely some regularity to when he does what he does," he said. "We video him with undercover cameras while we are in the brothels.
We see him talking with the younger girl and disappear off with her. The other girls say sometimes he pays, other times he doesn't. We are in the process of working with police to get him arrested."
An AFP spokeswoman said its Bangkok post continuously works with the Royal Thai Police on a criminal matters that have resulted in successful outcomes. These included the arrest of Sydney man Ian Potterton in   November 2012 for child sex offences committed in Thailand. Potterton was subsequently convicted in   August 2014 and sentenced to 10 years' jail."
She said the AFP worked with several NGOs, including Destiny Rescue, regarding such activity.
The charity is mainly based in Thailand, Cambodia and Laos and says that this year it has rescued 350 children aged nine and over, predominantly girls.
One nine-year-old girl kicked out of her home by her mother in Laos, was tricked into working in a brothel.
She was repeatedly abused, and the assaults were videoed and photographed.Mr Kirwan said his staff worked to gain her trust over a few days before she walked out of the brothel and jumped on the back of one of their motorcycles.
"We brought her back to one of our rescue homes," he said. "She's doing well. She's making jewellery at the moment. Through that work we can pay her a small salary, which gives her some money to send back to her mother and brother and sisters."
They also rescued a seven-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother who were trafficked by their parents across the border from Cambodia into Phuket, where they were pressured to sell flowers to tourists on the beach.