AP
PHNOM PENH - A CAMBODIAN court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced an American man to one year in prison for sexually abusing a teenage girl.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court Judge Chhay Kong found Harvey Alexander Johnson, 57, guilty of committing indecent acts with a 13-year girl.
The court also ordered him to pay US$3,000 (S$4,200) in compensation to the victim's parents and another four million riel (US$1,400) in fines.
Johnson, a private English teacher in the capital of Phnom Penh, was arrested in August in his rented house after police received complaints from the girl accusing him of sexual abuse. Judge Chhay Kong ordered Johnson, from Texas, expelled from the country after he completes his prison sentence.
The same court last on Thursday sentenced another American man, Michael James Dodd of Washington, DC, who is already serving a 10-year prison term for sexually abusing a teenage girl, to three more years in a separate case.
Cambodia has long been a magnet for foreign pedophiles because of poverty and corruption in law enforcement. But the country's police and courts have stepped up action against sex offenders in recent years.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court Judge Chhay Kong found Harvey Alexander Johnson, 57, guilty of committing indecent acts with a 13-year girl.
The court also ordered him to pay US$3,000 (S$4,200) in compensation to the victim's parents and another four million riel (US$1,400) in fines.
Johnson, a private English teacher in the capital of Phnom Penh, was arrested in August in his rented house after police received complaints from the girl accusing him of sexual abuse. Judge Chhay Kong ordered Johnson, from Texas, expelled from the country after he completes his prison sentence.
The same court last on Thursday sentenced another American man, Michael James Dodd of Washington, DC, who is already serving a 10-year prison term for sexually abusing a teenage girl, to three more years in a separate case.
Cambodia has long been a magnet for foreign pedophiles because of poverty and corruption in law enforcement. But the country's police and courts have stepped up action against sex offenders in recent years.
5 comments:
Corrupted Court systems trying to make money from foreigners very ashame to poorly pay systems. CPP members abusing and killing the Khmer people they are freed.
stupid court system don't know how to set the punishment. The man sexually abuse a girl and he get 1 year, so sick! Khmer are a "criminal" in their own land and they get more than 1 year? Great way to set up the system.
They should put that animals in cell for lifes so they won't do it again.
That guy need to stay at least 10 years in Jail for sexually abusing the minors. Why his sentence is so light? Why poor Khmer innocents is so cheap?
If this happened in America that guy would stay at least 15 years in Jail for the crime he committed.
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