Richard Beaulac says he is having fun.

But his idea of fun has the seaside town of Nha Trang in Vietnam sounding the alarm.

The locals led by anti-child sex activists believe that the 37-year-old Beaulac from Quebec has arrived in their tourist beach to prey on the young.

Beaulac is the same man charged with child sex crimes in neighbouring Cambodia, and his past has followed him to Vietnam.

His alleged penchant for local prostitutes, the party life and his writings on the web have upset the local community so much that they have lodged a police complaint against him.

Now they want the Canadian government to investigate his alleged sex tourism activities in Asia.

But Beaulac says he doesn’t deserve the bad reputation and according to his website, he is just having loads of fun.

In an e-mail this week, Bealuac said the charges against him in Cambodia are trumped up.

He said the charges were dropped.

But anti-child sex advocate Kimmy Le of Nha Trang suspects Beaulac is up to no good in her town.

Le, who runs a bar and a school for local street kids, said she has contacted the police in the Loc Tho District where Beaulac is suspected to be staying. Le, who is also known locally as ‘Crazy Kim’ for her die-hard dedication to catching sexual predators, said Beaulac came to relax at her bar about a week ago.

"He was playing pool in my bar," she told the Asian Pacific Post. "He asked me, ‘Are you Crazy Kim?’ I said, ‘Yes.’"

Beaulac has not returned since then, she said.

He plans to sue Le for releasing his "private information."

Le said others in the town have allegedly seen Beaulac cavorting with hookers and boozing it up with locals.

"He has been paying for a lot of prostitutes, and then he puts their pictures up on the Internet and rates them about skill and price," said David Heft, originally from California who lives in Nha Trang.

"We think this is disgusting."

Heft said several residents have confronted Beaulac about his alleged ugly behaviour and his past but Beaulac claims the charge in Cambodia was made up by local gangsters trying to extort money from him.

Last year, the Asian Pacific Post reported that Bealuac was charged with attempted rape after allegedly sexually assaulting a 13-year-old Cambodian street beggar, in the Angkor temple town of Siem Reap, where he worked as an English teacher.

Beaulac allegedly picked up the 13-year old girl along with three other female street children and took them back to his apartment. He then allegedly sent the three girls away before molesting the remaining girl. He told police he lay naked on the bed but denies molesting her. The Siem Reap Provincial Court in Vietnam subsequently charged him with attempted rape.

At that time Somath Khun, an English teacher who acted as Beaulac’s translator for the police, said Beaulac told him that he was innocent and claimed that police had demanded $7,000 to drop the charges.

In an e-mail Tuesday, Beaulac wrote: "This story is long time finish. It was all about extracting money. I did not pay the money they asked me and I took a lawyer, then it took a year to finalize all this, went to court and theses charges were dropped. All the officials who were involved . . . lost their employments . . . and some others.

"The girl and mom in my story. . . it was not the first time they were doing this to extract money."

Calls to the Canadian Embassy in Cambodia were not answered.

Cambodia has struggled to shed its reputation as a haven for pedophiles, putting dozens of foreigners in jail for child sex crimes or deporting them to face trial in their home countries since 2003.

Le, who has helped authorities nab others wanted for sexually exploiting children, said Beaulac has been writing some disturbing stuff on his FaceBook website since he arrived in Vietnam about four months ago.

She runs the the Pedophiles Buster Team, where she leads investigations from the back of her bar.

Beaulac currently works as a scuba diver instructor for Scuba Zone, she says, a company frequented by tourists.

He is also listed as the administrator of "Boom Boom Divers," a group on the social networking site FaceBook.

On the group’s page, written by Beaulac, are hints of his behaviour that has the locals alarmed.

"In no way do Boom Boom Divers endorse binge drinking, but we do enjoy it. In no circumstances Boom Boom Divers agree to pay for sex relationships, but we agree for performance bonus donations so they can afford their taxi back home," the web page says.

On his website, Beaulac says he served in the UN Protection Forces in former Yugoslavia in 1993. His site features pictures of him at war, posing next to scorched bodies and melted flesh. There are pictures of young women posing seductively and tributes to the Nazi regime on the website. Beaulac states he is currently reading Mein Kampft, Adolph Hitler’s autobiography.

Heft says as well as using the services of local prostitutes, Beaulac has a new 21-year-old girlfriend, whom he plans to marry.

"We have told (the girlfriend) about him and she says it doesn’t matter," Heft told the Asian Pacific Post.

"He has asked her to marry him after knowing her for two weeks, and she is desperate to be married."

Beaulac is not on Interpol’s list but The Future Group, a non-profit in Calgary, has repeatedly called for the Canadian government to investigate the charges against Beaulac and to lay charges under Canada’s child sex tourism laws.

Only one person has ever been charged under Bill C-27 and C-15, amendments to the Canadian Criminal Code criminalizing child sex tourism. That prosecution of Donald Bakker in Vancouver is largely considered accidental, since the overseas crimes were originally discovered during the course of an investigation for offenses in Canada.