Cambodia jails Frenchman for 7 years for child sex

18/10/2011
AFP

A Cambodian court on Tuesday sentenced a middle-aged Frenchman to seven years in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl, her lawyer said.

Juan Ordonez Camacho, 50, was arrested in the southern seaside town of Sihanoukville in January and accused of sexually abusing the teenager on numerous occasions in 2010, the victim's lawyer Nuon Phanit told AFP.

Preah Sihanouk provincial court ordered Camacho to be deported after serving his jail term, he added.

Frenchmen face child sex charges in Cambodia

Wednesday 09 March 2011
By RFI

Two Frenchmen have been charged with child sex offences in separate cases in Cambodia, according to Phnom Penh officials Wednesday.

The city’s municipal court charged 35-year-old designer and photographer Mathias Cassar with producing and selling child pornography on the internet.

Cassar was arrested on Sunday as he was preparing to take pictures of three under-age girls at a rented house in the Phnom Penh.

French national charged with sex crime in Cambodia

Sep 25, 2009
DPA

Phnom Penh - A French national has been charged with committing indecent acts with a minor less than a week after arriving in Cambodia, local media reported Friday.

Jean-Marie Beranger, 61, was arrested after a local child rights organization told police he had been soliciting boys in the coastal resort town of Sihanoukville in southern Cambodia.

The chief prosecutor at the provincial court told the Phnom Penh Post newspaper that Beranger's case has been forwarded to an investigating judge.

The judge, Kim Eng, told the newspaper that Beranger faces one to five years in jail if convicted.

'But the accused has denied any wrongdoing,' Kim Eng said.

Samleang Seila, the head of the child rights organization APLE, said his staff tipped off police after seeing the Frenchman having sex with a 13-year-old boy in public Tuesday evening, adding that Beranger had been seen soliciting several boys during his stay in Sihanoukville.

Samleang Seila said 13 foreigners convicted on child sex charges in Cambodia have been deported, most recently a twice-convicted Belgian man who was expelled last week.

Cambodia is trying to shed its reputation as a destination for child sex tourists and has prosecuted a number of foreigners for underage sex offences in recent years.