Saturday, March 01, 2008

Italian faces pedophile charge in Cambodia

Saturday, March 1, 2008
AFP

PHNOM PENH -- An Italian tourist was charged Friday for allegedly sexually abusing six Cambodian children, police said. Fabio Cencini, 43, was arrested in the seaside resort town of Sihanoukville on Tuesday night while in the company of a group of children, said Suon Sophan, deputy chief of the town's anti-trafficking police unit.

Cencini is accused of molesting four girls and two boys, all aged between eight and 13, he said. "The court charged him on Friday morning with debauchery for molesting the children," Suon Sophan said.

"We have enough evidence to prove his guilt, but he has denied the crime," the police said, adding that Cencini was now in jail awaiting trial.

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