Posted on: Tuesday, November 19, 2002

Businessman gets prison for child sex on Thailand trip

Associated Press

DALLAS — A businessman with residences in Hawai'i and Texas was sentenced yesterday to 5 1/2 years in prison and fined $30,000 for traveling overseas to engage in illegal sexual activity with a minor.

U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay recommended that Nicholas Bredimus, 52, be sent to the sex offender treatment program offered by the Bureau of Prisons at Butner, N.C. Lindsay ordered the sentence be followed by three years of supervised release restricting his access to children and the Internet.

Bredimus, who owns a house in Kailua, admitted that in late October 2001 he traveled to Thailand, where he told an interpreter to find young boys or girls to come to his hotel room to be photographed.

He said he videotaped himself engaged in sexually explicit conduct with a 13-year-old boy and took digital images of the boy engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Bredimus is the owner of Bredimus Systems Inc., of Coppell, now known as AIRLOGICA Corp. He had been in the custody of the U.S. Marshal's Service since his arrest in February in Hawai'i.

A federal grand jury in Dallas indicted Bredimus in May, and he entered a guilty plea in August.