SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An American citizen who resettled to Cambodia and then paid for sex with boys cannot be charged under a U.S. sex tourism law, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
Gary Jackson, a retired carpenter, moved to the Southeast Asian country in 2002 after selling his U.S. home and possessions. He was charged in 2003 with giving oral sex to three boys aged 10 to 15 for $21 and was indicted in the United States under a law passed that year aimed at curtailing Americans from traveling abroad for illicit sex.
After admitting he had engaged in sex with the boys, Jackson said he should not face charges under the law and on Thursday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.
"Gary Jackson admits to committing despicable sexual acts with children -- acts that led to Jackson's arrest by the Cambodian police," Marsha Berzon wrote for a three-judge panel. "Yet his abhorrent conduct does not give us license to ignore the elements of the criminal statutes that Congress has established."
The court ruled that the indictment should be dismissed because Jackson had completed his travels and settled in Cambodia before the law was passed in 2003.
Gary Jackson, a retired carpenter, moved to the Southeast Asian country in 2002 after selling his U.S. home and possessions. He was charged in 2003 with giving oral sex to three boys aged 10 to 15 for $21 and was indicted in the United States under a law passed that year aimed at curtailing Americans from traveling abroad for illicit sex.
After admitting he had engaged in sex with the boys, Jackson said he should not face charges under the law and on Thursday the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.
"Gary Jackson admits to committing despicable sexual acts with children -- acts that led to Jackson's arrest by the Cambodian police," Marsha Berzon wrote for a three-judge panel. "Yet his abhorrent conduct does not give us license to ignore the elements of the criminal statutes that Congress has established."
The court ruled that the indictment should be dismissed because Jackson had completed his travels and settled in Cambodia before the law was passed in 2003.
5 comments:
What a hypocrisy of American judiciary!
In one hand, a Law to sent the immigrants back to their Birth Country can retroactively pass on to the immigrants who convicted before the Law introduced and the other said that because of the US citizen had already settled in another country before the Law introduced can not be convicted.
What a double standard it is of the GREAT NATION of The WORLD!!!!
ahahahahahhahaha!
Oh fuck! I couldn't believe what I am reading here man!!!AH Gary Jackson is nothing more than a fucken 56 years old sexual predator who is preying on little children for his sexual addiction!!
This fucken bastard is a fucken old man who know how to manipulate little children!
Give me a fucken break those boys are only 10 to 15 years of age!!!
Man! This is one fuck up world I am living in!!!!
This bastard will strike again and this time I want to know what the judge have to say!!!!!!!!!!!
I want to know the definition of a minor. I hope this judge can define what is a minor. I want to know how does it feels if a 56 years old sexual predator pay this judge children who are in their 10 to 15 years of age to have sex and will this judge convict this same sexual predator?
Honestly, I think this judge is also sexual predator and he finds enjoyment to see a sexual predator exploited children including his children. I am not going to worry cause this sexual predator will strike again and then what???
It doesn't matter whether a sexual predator offered little children money or candy...it is so wrong and so evil to have sex with little children!!!!!!!
God will condemn this judge to hell for his decision!!!
He moved to another country, and then broke the law. So let that country deal with it. That's how it normally works, isn't it?
To 1:04 AM
So what is your point? This is the sexual expoitation of little children that court is dealing with here!! It doesn't matter whether this fucken old bastard move to another country or to outer space!!!
Now let turn the fucken question on you!!! Now let say you move to another society where killing little children for doing something wrong is acceptable. What would you do if you live in that kind of society and someone kill your children for doing something wrong and how would you feel about someone killing your children???? Hey man! The judge just throw the fucken book at your face and he say it is acceptable to kill your children!!!!
How do you feel???!!!
How do you feel???!!!
How do you feel???!!!
I will kill anybody for my children!!!
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