Cambodia
American tourist arrested on child sex charge in Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - An American man has been detained in Cambodia for allegedly committing a sexual offense against a 13-year-old girl.
Prosecutor Hing Bunchea said Monday a 60-year-old tourist, Richard David Mitchell, was charged with soliciting sex with a minor and sexual molestation.
He said that, if convicted on both charges, the American man could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. He could not provide the hometown of the arrested man.
Urm Rathana, chief of Phnom Penh's anti-human trafficking unit, said police arrested Mitchell at a city park Thursday night (28 Aug).
He said witnesses informed the police after seeing the American expose himself to the girl.
Mitchell's Cambodian lawyer, Uch Sophal, declined to comment on the case.
Poverty and weak law enforcement have made Cambodia a preferred destination for foreigners seeking to prey on children, although local police say they have stepped up efforts against pedophiles.
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Westerners & Americans normally go to countries like cambodia, Thailand & Vietnam for child sex. The children are lured into sex by giving false promises and big money.
Law enforcement agencies should be strict in monitoring all the middle aged and old people arriving in South East Asian countries, posing as tourists.
I find it particularly sad that people from developed countries are traveling to an impoverished country like Cambodia to prey on children. Cambodians generally look up to foreigners, particularly Westerners, as role models for fairness, benevolence, freedom and justice. The acts of the sex tourists are threatening to undermine the good deeds of those foreigners who are in Cambodia to do good.
that bad
I agree, the paedo's here get nice segregated complexes so they are not at risk from the other inmates,.... free to discuss their pervertions with like minded people, getting 3 meals a day, clean sheets, and they even get "paid" by the state for doing things in prison. Hmm... how much SHOULD it cost to rot in hell?
My heartiest congratulation to the Cambodian Law Enforcement Officer on arresting this scum bag ! Can you please keep him there as long as you can - we have plenty of Pedophiles in this country and our prisons are running out of space.
Let him get a taste of what Prisons are like in your country - no Color TV, No Gym
and no air-conditioning - only mosquitoes
to accompany him at night.
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