Sexual exploitation trainer is tv reality show model

Apart from being an English teacher, the suspect arrested on charges of sexually abussing underage boys had been identified as a set builder for a reality show for children on television.

The suspect Nirantha Edirisinghe, 54, was arrested by Kollupitiya Police following a tip-off that sexually exploited underage boys.

It is alleged that video footages were sold to clients in foreign countries.

The suspect was remanded till August 5 after being produced in the Nugegoda Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

The suspect had conducted English tuition classes in several areas in and around Colombo. He had allegedly taken some male students aged between 10-12 for private classes to his residence where he had sexually abused them, it is alleged.

The Police also seized 135 CDs containing footages of child abuse, a pen-drive, hard disk, memory card, camera, and mobile phone from the suspect’s house.