Friday, April 13, 2007

5-year prison term for sex with girls [in Cambodia]

Thursday, April 12, 2007
Marisa Lagos
San Francisco Chronicle (Calif., USA)


A Bay Area man who pleaded guilty to having sex with an underage girl while in Cambodia has been sentenced to 64 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution.

Michael Koklich, 49, also known as Michael Light, was arrested in Phnom Penh in February 2006 and indicted on charges that he engaged in illicit sexual conduct in foreign places. Koklich lived part-time in Cambodia and in various Bay Area locations.

Koklich admitted to investigators that he had sexual relations with two girls, ages 11 and 13, according to court documents, and said he paid them $10 to $20 for each encounter. He also said he had had sex with 40 to 50 underage girls in Cambodia over a three-year period, court records show.

Under an agreement with the U.S. attorney's office, Koklich pleaded guilty to one of two counts and agreed to pay $5,000 to each victim.

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