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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – An American man has been charged with soliciting sex from two Cambodian girls, officials said Wednesday.
Michael James Dodd of Washington, DC, was arrested at his rented house in the capital, Phnom Penh, on Sunday, said police Maj. Gen. Bith Kimhong.
He said police who raided the house found the two girls, ages 13 and 14, inside with Dodd.
Dodd was charged during a court appearance on Tuesday, said prosecutor Sok Kalyan. If convicted, Dodd could face up to 10 years in prison, Sok Kalyan said.
The suspect's Cambodian lawyer, So Dara, said his client denied the allegation against him.
Cambodia has long been a magnet for foreign pedophiles because of poverty and law enforcement undermined by corruption. But the country's police and courts have stepped up action against sex offenders in recent years.
A 59-year-old Michael James Dodd is listed as a sexual offender on a Web site of the Department of Law Enforcement of the State of Florida in the US. The listing gives his last registered address as Syracuse, New York.
It was not immediately clear if the man, who was convicted in July 2002 of sexual abuse of a child, was the same man arrested in Phnom Penh.
Michael James Dodd of Washington, DC, was arrested at his rented house in the capital, Phnom Penh, on Sunday, said police Maj. Gen. Bith Kimhong.
He said police who raided the house found the two girls, ages 13 and 14, inside with Dodd.
Dodd was charged during a court appearance on Tuesday, said prosecutor Sok Kalyan. If convicted, Dodd could face up to 10 years in prison, Sok Kalyan said.
The suspect's Cambodian lawyer, So Dara, said his client denied the allegation against him.
Cambodia has long been a magnet for foreign pedophiles because of poverty and law enforcement undermined by corruption. But the country's police and courts have stepped up action against sex offenders in recent years.
A 59-year-old Michael James Dodd is listed as a sexual offender on a Web site of the Department of Law Enforcement of the State of Florida in the US. The listing gives his last registered address as Syracuse, New York.
It was not immediately clear if the man, who was convicted in July 2002 of sexual abuse of a child, was the same man arrested in Phnom Penh.
5 comments:
Put that motherfucker in the Cambodian-Thai border where the land mines are and tell him there are more 13 and 14 years old girls there. Low life motherfucker!
Give the 2 legged animal jail term and then deport it back to Floria to face more charge.
I hope the Cambodian 's authority prosecute this chicken hawk to the maximum sentence. If not, the U.S government will prosecute them... just like the previous case, where a retired colonel raped several under aged girls, received 250 years in prison. The previous U.S. Ambassador wrote a letter to the judge to give that convict the maximum sentence....so, the judge handed down the verdict to convict this scum the maximum sentence. Locked them up and feed them to the lion.
An American
I hope this motherfucker's sentence won't be as light as the Russian. Where the hell these bastards came from. Go back to hell. Let others violate his ass,
I'm curious.. althought this bastard was a phedofile and a sex preditor, I am wondering what is the chances that the cambodian authorities would raid a european's house and make an arrest committing a sexual act with a minor in cambodia?
I also wonder if was this bastard only soliciting sex from the 13 and 14 years old girls who were found in his house with him?
I'm thinking that this might have been a set up. Any how, one less child preditor in Cambodia is a good thing.
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