Neil Bantleman Returns to Canada After Years in Indonesian Prison, Family Says

Neil Bantleman Returns to Canada After Years in Indonesian Prison, Family Says
Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman, center, walks with his wife Tracy, second right, prior to the start of his trial at South Jakarta District Court in Jakarta, Indonesia on April 2, 2015. AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana/The Canadian Press
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A Canadian school teacher who spent the past five years in an Indonesian prison on child sex abuse charges he’s long denied said Thursday that he had returned to Canada after being granted clemency.

Neil Bantleman issued a brief statement saying the government of Indonesia, where he once worked and had expected to spend more than a decade in prison, had recently allowed him to go free.