PHNOM PENH (AFP) — A 68-year-old Canadian man has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing two Cambodian sisters aged 10 and 12 in a popular seaside resort town, police said Wednesday.
Daniel Lavigne was arrested at a bus station in Sihanoukville on Monday, a day after he allegedly abused the girls at a guesthouse, said Be Sivanna, chief of the town's anti-trafficking and juvenile protection unit.
Police accused Lavigne with having sex with underage girls and committing indecent acts against minors, Be Sivanna told AFP by telephone.
"The suspect denied he committed the crimes. He told police he loved the girls as his daughters because he has a love affair with the girls' mother," he said.
"But the girls testified that he sexually abused them," he said, adding that the man would face formal charges in court on Wednesday.
Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-paedophilia push in 2003 to try to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.
Daniel Lavigne was arrested at a bus station in Sihanoukville on Monday, a day after he allegedly abused the girls at a guesthouse, said Be Sivanna, chief of the town's anti-trafficking and juvenile protection unit.
Police accused Lavigne with having sex with underage girls and committing indecent acts against minors, Be Sivanna told AFP by telephone.
"The suspect denied he committed the crimes. He told police he loved the girls as his daughters because he has a love affair with the girls' mother," he said.
"But the girls testified that he sexually abused them," he said, adding that the man would face formal charges in court on Wednesday.
Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-paedophilia push in 2003 to try to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.
12 comments:
There goes more victims of Pouk Ah Scam Rainxy from oversea.
Sorry little girls!
A 2:01PM,
Watch your mouth, mate. Use your brain wisely, if you have any...
This is the type of behavior that KI-Media and other pro-Western Khmers support.
We need to forget stronger ties with Arab countries as well as absorb Islamic values in our society. I fully support cooperation with Arab to counter Western influences in Cambodia.
-H.E. Khmer Patriot Al-Mohammad Al-Islam, Ph.D.
Agreed!
Sick bastard! Too many of them here.
We have our own Khmer family value and they are good and strong for our society. We only need to refresh the Buddhist lessons and the Khmer value in all educational systems.
Agreed!
Yes we should become Cham!
Ah kwack will have both eyes with islam laws or be headed!
Tie that motherfucker up and drop him in the Mekong river alive!
He may swime out! dude.
I sujest to gauche one of his eye so he may get PhD from Hanoi!
2:01PM,
Ah thork tiep undersea stop begging from oversea-people asshole!! and stop using fake marriage to get here dumbfuck! if you think you'r better than oversea people, stop begging Ah thork tiep Mok krass Som tien! hahahaha!!
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