Tuesday, December 21, 2010

US man jailed for child sex tourism in Cambodia

Michael Dodd (right)
Los Angeles, Dec 21 (IANS) A 61-year-old American man has been jailed for being involved in child sex tourism in Cambodia, after he pleaded guilty to having sex with a teenage girl whom he 'rented' from her poor family for $100 a month.

Michael James Dodd, an English teacher, was also ordered by Judge John F. Walter to pay $9,500 in compensation and serve 10 years of supervised release.

Dodd pleaded guilty to travelling to Cambodia to engage in sex with a minor.

He was previously arrested in 2001 in the Northern Mariana Islands near Guam for inappropriately touching 13 underage female students at an elementary school where he worked, Xinhua reported citing the US Attorney's Office.



After serving time there he moved to Cambodia, where he taught English to students between the ages of 13 and 45, said Steven M. Martinez, FBI assistant director in charge.

He was arrested by Cambodian authorities in 2008 for the sexual activities he was carrying out with the 14-year-old, Martinez said.

Dodd was convicted in a Cambodian court of sexually abusing the girl and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. After serving only 16 months, he was brought back to the US in February.

The accused admitted to having sexual relations on 25 occasions with a minor and paying the Cambodian girl's destitute family $50 every two weeks so that he could eventually marry the girl.

Dodd also admitted having paying other children for sex in Cambodia, prosecutors said.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Boarder issues is one this.. this on going sarga of Sex offender what if the policy that CPP/Somdech Ah Hun Sen is implementing to protect the future childrens of Cambodia?

anything ????...30 years, 40 years, may be one day Hun Sen grant children get lucky too...but that will never happen right...he is too powerful...!!

Anonymous said...

We've to watch out for those predators. That went to visited our country those animals they go these just looking for sex only not for turist. I'm hating those kind of animals always try to get advantages only to the poor country and lawless country to find sex mother fuckers hopes some one will fucking his ass to bleed in jail.

Anonymous said...

While I was reading this story I thought , the parents fo the child could have been in jail too but later on I realized that , they did it because the were desperate for money . No parents in the world want to do that to their children but they are so poor . If you have no job , no money to buy food , no money to buy medicine , 100 dollars can be a big help . In this case , I blame the leader of the country because he has no ability is creating job for the people .