A British Columbia man convicted of molesting young boys in Thailand was released from custody on Wednesday.
Christopher Neil was arrested at Vancouver International Airport last week and has been in police custody in Richmond ever since.
Conditions of his release state he is not allowed to communicate with anyone under the age of 16 or own a computer. He is also not allowed near any playgrounds or schools.
Police took the rare step of arresting Neil on the grounds he allegedly could pose a danger to the public in Canada.
"Any time you have a predator who is known to assault children in your environment, I think a community and a society need to know about that," said Brian McConaghy on Monday, a former Mountie who heads a victims' rights organization and attended the proceedings.
McConaghy has closely followed Neil's case, which gained notoriety in 2007 when police widely released video images unscrambling an Internet photograph of Neil. Neil became the subject of an international manhunt when he was no longer disguised by a digital swirl in pictures of abuse posted online. International media began referring to him as "Swirl Face."
Interpol eventually found him teaching English in Korea. He fled to Thailand, where he was apprehended.
It is not known yet where Neil plans to live, but he used to live in Maple Ridge, B.C. and has family in Canada.
With files from the Canadian Press
