Westerner in Photograph Identified as American Sailor

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In this photo taken on Aug. 20, 2012, Director of Documentation Center of Cambodia, Youk Chhang arranges photos, a part of about a thousand of newly-discovered photo collection of detainees at the former Khmer Rouge main prison S-21, in his office in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. More than three decades have passed since the Khmer Rouge ultras orchestrated the deaths of nearly 2 million, one out of every four Cambodians, and turned the country into a slave labor camp.

The photographic evidence proves there were more than just four Westerners detained, tortured and ordered executed at the Tuol Sleng prison.

04 September 2012

Men Kimeng, VOA Khmer

WASHINGTON DC - Researchers at the Documentation Center of Cambodia have identified one of two Westerners who appeared amid more than 1,400 photographs donated to the center last month.

Researchers say one of the men photographed was American Christopher DeLance, who was seized by the Khmer Rouge as he sailed off the coast with three other foreigners.

The photographic evidence proves there were more than just four Westerners detained, tortured and ordered executed at the Tuol Sleng prison, known to the Khmer Rouge as S-21, which was supervised by jailed torture chief Duch.

“This finding is testimony against what Duch has always claimed, that there were only four westerners who died at S-21,” Chhang Youk, director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, told VOA Khmer. “On the contrary, there were 12 of them, and one life is already important, not to say 10,000 or 20,000 lives. It adds to more responsibility for Duch.”

Western inmate identified in S-21 portraits

Recently identified S-21 victim Christopher Edward DeLance. Photograph: Documentation Center of Cambodia

Monday, 03 September 2012
Joseph Freeman
The Phnom Penh Post

One of two Westerners whose portraits were found among a recently uncovered cache of S-21 inmate portraits has been identified as American sailor Christopher Edward DeLance, who was seized by the Khmer Rouge while boating off the Cambodian coast in 1978.

After receiving photographs of the two Westerners in a cache of 1,427 anonymously donated S-21 inmate portraits last month, Documentation Center of Cambodia director Youk Chhang suspected the two were DeLance and former Phnom Penh French Embassy employee Andre Gaston Courtigne.

To find out if one of the photos was DeLance, Youk reached out to author Peter Maguire, who researched the killing of Westerners at S-21 in his book Facing Death in Cambodia.

Maguire told Youk he had confirmed from two independent sources that the photo shows the face of DeLance.

Former Reagan aide serving a KR killer is rewarded with the titles of "Minister w/o portfolio" and "His Ach-cellency"

Bretton Sciaroni, right, shakes hands with Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen

America’s [corrupt?] fixer in Cambodia

In the post-communist kleptocracy, a former Reagan aide is the man to see.

Monday, Oct 31, 2011
By Ken Silverstein
Salon

PHNOM PENH — Bretton Sciaroni, an American expatriate and former ideologue of Ronald Reagan’s White House, makes a most unusual power broker in contemporary Cambodia. The portly Sciaroni is an official advisor to the government of Prime Minister Hun Sen, a one-time Khmer Rouge cadre. The Cambodian government has bestowed on Sciaroni the titles Minister Without Portfolio and His Excellency. From his office in an exclusive section of the city — neighbors include the president of the ruling party — he runs a consulting firm that brokers business deals on behalf of foreign investors — deals that often benefit well-connected companies and individuals like Sciaroni himself.

Sciaroni also appears to be a chief intermediary between the U.S. government and Cambodia, which has emerged in recent years as an unlikely American ally. The U.S. cut most assistance to Cambodia in 1997 after Hun Sen staged a coup but resumed aid a decade later. Competition with China for influence in the region and growing trade ties — the United States buys more than half of Cambodia’s apparel production, its primary export — are the primary factors behind the political warming. It probably didn’t hurt that Cambodia struck oil and Chevron got a stake in the most promising field. Today Cambodia is the third-largest recipient of U.S. aid in Southeast Asia, after Indonesia and the Philippines. And Brett Sciaroni is, at least politically, the biggest American in the country.

Earlier this year Sciaroni met me for drinks at the Elephant Bar of the Raffles Hotel. Wearing a light-colored jacket and yellow tie and sporting gold-rimmed glasses and a thick gold bracelet, Sciaroni offered an upbeat view of his adopted country.

“This is very much an emerging economy and democracy,” he said while sipping from a glass of Chateau Batailley, a French Bordeaux. “There’s been a lot of political progress. The ruling party no longer intimidates the opposition.” He describes his own work in Cambodia in altruistic fashion, saying, “This is a country where you can make a difference. If you make a suggestion to a government official and he likes it, it will happen.”

Most independent observers have a different view of Cambodia under Hun Sen, who has held power since a 1997 coup. Forty percent of the population lives on less than $1.25 a day, and groups like Human Rights Watch and Global Witness have documented large-scale corruption and political repression.

CNY doctor arrested in Cambodia for child sex abuse

APRIL 24, 2011

SYRACUSE, NY (WSYR-TV) – A doctor from Central New York has been arrested in Cambodia and is being held in a Phnom Penh prison on a charge of sexual abuse of an underage boy, according to the non-governmental organization Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE).

In a release on its website, APLE says James D’Agostino, 56, was arrested February 16 by the Phnom Penh anti human trafficking and juvenile protection police. He was charged two days later under article 34 “purchase of child prostitution.”

APLE is an organization that provides assistance to vulnerable children in South and South-East Asia by monitoring and investigating child sexual exploitation and associated trafficking activities.

Repeat sex offender nabbed in Cambodia

A 72-year-old man is one of several Minnesota sex criminals believed to have fled the country.

March 4, 2011

By JAMES WALSH

Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota, USA)

Loren Clayton Oulman was like many American expatriates looking for a fresh start in Asia. He ran website ads in Korea and China, offering his services as a teacher or consultant. He lived in Cambodia and traveled to India, Bangkok and Myanmar, searching for opportunities.

But he is also a convicted sex offender who'd fled Minnesota. Thanks to his Internet ads and a new international initiative, the U.S. Marshals Service captured Oulman in January and, last week, returned him to a cell in Minnesota. He had spent more than a year abroad and been featured on "America's Most Wanted."

Oulman, 72, is one of a several known sex offenders who have fled Minnesota for other countries, according to the Marshals Service -- just some of the thousands across the country who evade monitoring. Investigators hope a new initiative, dubbed "Project Sentinel/Operation Guardian," helps make foreign soil less of a haven for U.S. sex criminals.

"It's about child safety," said Deputy U.S. Marshal Matt Moran, who coordinates sex offender investigations for the Minnesota office. "Here, and in other countries."

English teacher gets 9 years for sex with Cambodian teen

Mon Dec 20, 2010
By Alex Dobuzinskis

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former English teacher was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison on Monday for traveling to Cambodia to have sex with a 14 year-old girl in what the judge called one of the "most disgusting cases" he had ever heard.

Prosecutors say Michael James Dodd, 61, admitted to sexually abusing the girl over an eight-month period in 2008 during which he paid her impoverished family $100 a month for private visits with her.

Dodd, a U.S. citizen, was then working in Phnom Penh as an English teacher.

U.S. District Judge John F. Walter expressed reluctance to approve the prison term of eight years and eight months sought by prosecutors under a plea deal with Dodd, indicating he thought the sentence was too lenient for the crime.

"I may live to regret this," the judge said, adding that he had no doubt that when Dodd is released from prison "he's going to do this again."

"This is one of the most disgusting cases that has ever come before this court," he said. He called Dodd a "cunning, clever and manipulative predator."

But imposing the maximum possible sentence of 30 years in prison would have required a jury conviction, and the Cambodian victim would have been expected to travel to the United States to testify against Dodd. Walter said he was unwilling to force her to suffer that ordeal.

Dodd pleaded guilty in September to traveling to Cambodia to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor.

He previously served more than four years in prison in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, where in 2002 he was convicted of inappropriately touching underage girls. Dodd was working at an elementary school at the time.

After his release from prison there, Dodd traveled to Cambodia in 2007 to begin teaching there. Prosecutors say there is evidence that he abused other minors in Cambodia aside from the 14 year-old girl.

Cambodian police arrested Dodd in October 2008, after they investigated his relationship with the girl, and he served 16 months in jail in that country before authorities revoked his visa and expelled him.

FBI agents escorted Dodd back to the United States.

The bespectacled Dodd was soft-spoken during his Monday court appearance, and he thanked his lawyers for treating him like a "brother or a dad." He then tried to engage the judge in conversation.

"I have no desire to sit here and engage in idle chit-chat and banter with you," Walter said.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Greg McCune)

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.

Kent man sentenced for sexual exploitation of Cambodian children

December 10, 2010
Posted by John de Leon
Seattle Times

A Kent man was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for having sex with underage girls in Cambodia, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Craig Carr, 59, used the Internet to contact someone in Cambodia who agreed to find girls for Carr to have sex with during a visit to the country. Carr paid the individual approximately $8,000 for sex with the girls during a week-long trip to Cambodia. Carr reportedly told the person arranging the sexual encounters that he wanted the girls to be about 12 years old, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Carr traveled from Seattle to Phnom Penh on Jan. 13. When he was arrested nine days later he admitted that he had sex with three young girls during his stay in Cambodia, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. His camera contained pictures of three young victims. Two of the victims have been located, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Carr pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child in July in U.S. District Court in Seattle.

Cambodia convicts American, French and Japanese men in child sex crime cases

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Associated Press

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian courts convicted American, French and Japanese men Wednesday of sexually abusing teenagers in three separate cases that authorities said should serve as a warning to pedophiles.

Maj. Keo Thea, chief of the Phnom Penh police division that protects minors and victims of human trafficking, said the cases were a victory for police, who have been trying for years to crack down on foreign pedophiles drawn to the country by poverty and lax law enforcement.

"Today's convictions should serve as a lesson to other foreigners who wish to visit Cambodia only to have sex with minors," he said. "They should be aware and stay away."

The coastal Preah Sihanouk provincial court issued separate rulings on the American and Frenchman.

The American, 57-year-old Alan Arthur Perry, was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of paying four children aged 16 and 17 for prostitution. He was ordered to pay 4 million riel ($950) in compensation to the families of the children.

Michel Roger Blanchard, a 45-year-old Frenchman, was convicted of "unlawful removal" of 16-year-old boys for the purpose of sexual relations, a charge that carries a penalty of up to 20 years.

He was sentenced to 17 years in prison for taking the boys on a trip in the beach resort area of Sihanoukville, about 115 miles (185 kilometres) southwest of the capital, Phnom Penh. The judge ordered him to pay 3 million riel ($710) in compensation to the boys.

In the capital, the Phnom Penh Municipal Court sentenced 41-year-old Japanese Atsushi Kato to seven years in prison on charges of repeatedly abusing a 13-year-old girl. He testified to having sexual relations with the girl a half dozen times, each time paying her $10.

He was convicted of paying a child for prostitution and ordered to be deported after serving his term.

"I thought the girl must be over 18 because she wore cutie makeup at night," Kato testified through a translator.

Alleged 'sex tourist' faces trial in L.A. federal court

August 3, 2010
Shelby Grad
L.A. Now (California, USA)

A man accused of being a "sex tourist" in Cambodia will face a September trial in federal court, officials said.

Michael James Dodd, 59, was brought from Cambodia to Los Angeles in February. If convicted, he could face up to 30 years in federal prison.

Dodd taught English in Cambodia, had sex with a 14-year-old girl and was seen with her on several occasions in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, according to an affidavit for arrest filed in federal court.

In 2002, Dodd pleaded guilty in Saipan to five counts of sexual abuse of a child after he was accused of inappropriately touching 13 female students at an elementary school where he taught, an FBI agent said in the affidavit. Dodd served time in prison and was placed on probation for 15 years.

He also faces criminal charges in Cambodia.

Agents in the FBI's Los Angeles office handled the case because they are working with the Cambodian government and nongovernmental agencies to identify and prosecute U.S. citizens who travel to that country to have sex with minors, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said.

Kent man pleads guilty in Cambodia child exploitation case

July 27, 2010
Posted by John de Leon
The Seattle Times

A Kent man pleaded guilty Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to sexual exploitation of a child in connection with a January trip to Cambodia where he had sex with underage girls, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Craig Carr, 59, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison, and up to 30 years in prison, when he is sentenced in October.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Carr made contact over the Internet with a person in Cambodia who agreed to find girls for Carr to have sex with during a visit to the country. Carr paid the individual approximately $8,000 for sex with the girls during a week-long trip to Cambodia. Carr reportedly told the person arranging the sexual encounters that he wanted the girls to be about 12 years old.

Carr traveled from Seattle to Phnom Penh on Jan. 13. When he was arrested nine days later he admitted that he had sex with three young girls during his stay in Cambodia, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. His camera contained pictures of three young victims. Two of the victims have been located.

'Dad' Who Used Cash To Lure Boys Pleads Guilty In Sex Tourism Case [in Cambodia]

Friday, May. 14 2010
By Dennis Romero
LA Weekly Blog

A 75-year-old who dropped money in a Cambodian town as a ruse to attract boys to molest pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Friday to federal sex charges as part of a plea agreement, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Jack Louis "Dad'' Sporich, a former Santa Monica resident who was expelled from Cambodia last year following the revelations of molestation, will likely face 10 years behind bars as part of the deal.

He was nabbed following operation "Twisted Traveler," a federal project to prosecute sex tourists who go to Cambodia to molest children.

An affidavit reveals that Sporich would drive a motorbike through the Cambodian town of Siem Riep and drop cash as a way to get boys to come to him. Cambodian authorities arrested him last year after two 12-year-old boys reported they had been molested.

The plea agreement would also have Sporich pay $30,000 to the two victims in order to help fund their educations.

Sentencing was scheduled for Aug. 2.

Kent man accused of having sex with Cambodian girls

May 10, 2010
The Seattle Times (Washington State, USA)

Craig Thomas Carr, 59, will appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Monday on allegations that he had sex with underage girls in Cambodia.

Carr was arrested by Cambodian National Police on Jan. 22 and was brought back to the U.S. by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on May 6, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The charges against Carr are detailed in a five-count criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.

Carr is charged with travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and sexual exploitation of a child.

According to affidavit in the case, the investigation into Carr began in December 2009 when the Cambodian National Police, acting on information from the French National Police, learned that a taxi driver in Phnom Penh had advertised that he could connect people with child prostitutes. Carr responded to one of the Internet advertisements in November 2009 and the two men exchanged approximately 20 e-mail messages, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

In the e-mails, Carr told the man that he wanted to have sex with girls around the age of 12, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

Carr traveled to Cambodia on Jan. 13, authorities said. The next day, Carr met the taxi driver at his hotel and was driven to a local guest house, where he met an adult female who appeared to be managing a brothel, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Over the next week, Carr had sex with three different female juveniles, authorities said. Carr paid the man about $3,000 when he arrived in Cambodia and had made two additional payments -- of $3,000 and $1,800 -- to the adult female who allegedly operated the brothel, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Carr also paid each young girl $20 to take sexually explicit photographs of them, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

The Cambodian National Police arrested Carr on Jan. 22. The taxi driver, who was not identified by the U.S. Attorney's Office, was also arrested by Cambodian authorities.

A Sex Offender Who Evaded the System

Convicted sex offender Michael Dodd could face up to 30 years in prison for traveling abroad to have sex with a minor.

Registered Sex Offender Michael Dodd Slipped Through Cracks From Florida to N.Y. to Cambodia

April 8, 2010
By DAN HARRIS, ALMIN KARAMEHMEDOVIC and
AUDE SOICHET
ABC News (USA)

Convicted sex offender Michael Dodd could face up to 30 more years in prison if convicted on new charges of traveling abroad to have sex with a minor.

In February, the FBI arrested Dodd and returned him to the U.S. from Cambodia, where he was serving time after being convicted of having sexual relations with a teenager.

He is being held without bail in Los Angeles.

Before he was arrested earlier this year, we met Dodd, 61, in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, where he was accused of attempting to arrange a marriage to a 14-year-old girl. At the time, Dodd was still on parole for abusing children in America, but got lost in the system.

Recent headlines have been dominated by allegations of law enforcement and parole lapses in cases of convicted sex offenders, from Phillip Garrido, who was accused of holding Jaycee Dugard captive in his backyard for 18 years, to John Gardner, another paroled sex offender who was accused of raping and killing California high school student Chelsea King.

The Michael Dodd case provides a blow-by-blow example of how easy it is for a convicted child sex offender to simply slip through the cracks, especially overseas.

We traced Dodd's path from the suburbs of Orlando to upstate New York to Cambodia, which has long been a top destination for pedophiles from the United States and all over the world, according to law enforcement officials and humanitarian groups.

But Dodd's story began in 2001 on the island of Saipan, part of the U.S. Commenwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, where he worked as a reading evaluator at an elementary school, and was arrested and convicted for abusing students.

Dodd "basically took advantage of an opportunity when he was testing these children on their reading. They would be alone together in a classroom and the child would be reading and that's [the] time when he molested them," said Kevin Lynch, who prosecuted Dodd for abusing students. "It was obvious from the get go that it was a very serious case."

Eighteen children -- all first and third-graders -- came forward, including Jesus Sablan's seven-year-old daughter. She told her mother that Dodd put his hand down her shirt.

"I was boiling mad when I heard that from my daughter," Sablan said. "I just felt at that time like going over and finding that guy and ringing his neck out. That's how mad I was."

In an eerie hand-written confession obtained by "Nightline," Dodd tried to explain his abuse, blaming it on everything from lack of affordable local restaurants to the incompetence of the local cable television company.

In April 2002, Dodd pleaded guilty to molesting five children and got a 10- year sentence. But in May 2006, after less than five years behind bars, Dodd went before the parole board for a third time and they voted to let him go.

"I cannot read the individual's mind," said Ramon Camacho, chairman of the parole board of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Camacho said he thought Dodd would be safe in the community.

Dodd's Dangerous Odyssey
Dodd's next stop was Guam, authorities say, which is also an American territory. He was subjected to tough parole conditions there: a curfew; random visits from parole officers; no unsupervised contact with children.

Just six weeks after Dodd arrived, the local parole chief reached a stunning decision: Dodd's request to move to the state of Florida would be granted -- even though all of his parole conditions would no longer apply.

"He seemed like a person that wanted to do well," said Michael Quinata, Guam's chief parole officer. "I didn't sense that [he was going to reoffend] because he was very compliant."

Given what happened next, Quinata said: "I think we got played."

Dodd Allegedly Lures Girl in Orlando
Six weeks out of prison for sexually abusing children, Dodd moved into a house in suburban Orlando. There, officials say, he seemed to be trying once again to befriend young children.

Jennifer Roberts, a grandmother who lived across the street, said Dodd called a young girl into his yard.

"My husband was test driving my motorcycle and he went around the corner and saw [Dodd] out there [talking] to our neighbor's little girl and he had a little puppy with him," she said. "And when my husband came back he said you better call the police."

Though the police came and spoke to Dodd, they did not put him on parole supervision. Sgt. Glen Hall of the Lake County Sheriff's office, in Tavares, Fla., said he had no legal authority to increase Dodd's supervision, as he said he was responsible for sex offender registry supervision only and had no parole authority.

"We did everything we could do as far as making sure he was in compliance, checking in on him," Hall said. "It's absolutely scary -- especially knowing his background. There's no doubt about it."

Hall said that he wouldn't have even known how to sound the alarm about Dodd's track record and admitted the system seemed to have completely failed in this case.

But this situation is not uncommon; of the more than 700,000 sex offenders in the U.S. today, 100,000 are missing, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

"It's very frustrating. There's concern. There are worries there without a doubt," Hall said of the parole system. "You know they've already committed these offenses one time. When are they gonna commit again?"

Dodd Reportedly Displayed Interest in Kids in N.Y.
Dodd's case was about to get worse. In August 2007 -- about a year after getting out of prison -- he moved to Syracuse, N.Y., where he continued to display a worrisome interest in young children, a caseworker reported.

Judy Klenchik, who was Dodd's case manager at a homeless shelter, said he told her that he wanted to approach a young child on the street corner.

"Michael told me he saw the child standing on Gifford Street and he was concerned about that child and wanted to approach him," Klenchik recalled. "That was another really big red flag and concern."

Klenchik said she got truly alarmed when, a few months later, in December 2007, Dodd showed her a plane ticket to Cambodia, where he said he had a job teaching English to children.

Klenchik said she notified the parole board, but doesn't know what action they took.

"I don't know what they did when I notified them. I did everything that I could at that time to get the ball rolling to make that not happen," she said. "As far as I could go; I made the calls, I did what I had to do. I was praying that that plane wasn't going to leave for Cambodia."

But it did.

Cambodia: Dodd Cavorts with 14-Year-Old?
In Cambodia, Dodd was accused of attempting to arrange his marriage with a 14-year-old girl named Nang.

Dodd was shown on undercover video, complaining to Nang's mother that the girl was being insufficiently affectionate with him, despite the amount of money he had given the family.

"I just can't keep going like this anymore with her. I don't think she loves me," Dodd said on camera. "I really want to find out."

"Is there a word for mannequin? When I kiss her I feel like I'm kissing a statue. There's no reciprocity. She's just like a limp pillow," he said. "She's gotta understand that I can't wait to kiss her. A general, how are you kiss. And she avoids it, she shuns it."

"I want to ask: if we get married, is she ok to move to the states?" Dodd said on camera.

The translator said Nang didn't want to leave her family.

Dodd didn't know it, but undercover agents from a local anti-trafficking group called APLE, had started tracking him round the clock shortly after he arrived in Cambodia after they spotted him on the street with Nang.

APLE has made it its mission to identify suspected foreign pedophiles and to help gather enough evidence for the police to make an arrest.

Dodd Faces Up to 30 Years in Prison

Cambodia is a magnet for pedophiles. Local investigators took us into the seedy world where they say one can get anything for a price; a world where Dodd seemed to have completely and comfortably immersed himself.

In October 2008 -- 10 months after he arrived and more than two years after he got out of prison -- Cambodian police, in conjunction with the FBI, swooped in and arrested Dodd. They took him and Nang's mother into custody.

Dodd was sentenced to ten years in prison in August 2009. Outside the courthouse in Phnom Penh, we met Nang.

"Do you think Michael Dodd behaved inappropriately with you?" I asked her. "Did he sexually abuse you?"

"Yes," the translator said as the little girl nodded.

We watched as the girl was completely shunned by members of her own family, who blamed her for getting her mother in trouble. She was allowed to hug her younger brother.

After four years of evading the law, Dodd was brought back to the U.S. by the FBI in February 2010. He will stand trial for traveling abroad to have sex with a minor. If convicted, he faces up to 30 years in prison.

Dodd's long run of slipping through the cracks is over, but no one knows how many young victims may have been left in its wake.

Murder suspect [in the US] located in Cambodia

Nathan Helburn

March 18, 2010
By Eyewitness News (Idaho, USA)

IDAHO FALLS - The Idaho Falls Police Department was informed by the FBI that Nathan Helburn had been located in Cambodia.

Police from the countries of Cambodia and Thailand were involved in finding Helburn. The Idaho Falls Police Department can't confirm or deny that an arrest has been made as of right now.

Helburn is a suspect in the death of 61-year-old Mary Helburn. Her body was found March 9th when police went to her Idaho Falls home to check on her.

An arrest warrant for Nathan Helburn was issued two days later. Investigators believe he stole his mother's car, the fled the country.

Police in California found a car registered to Mary Helburn earlier this week.

FBI: Alleged Sex Tourist Returned to Los Angeles

Michael Dodd (R)

February 22, 2010
KTLA News (California, USA)

LOS ANGELES -- A man who taught English in Cambodia and who is accused of traveling outside the United States to have sex with children arrived back in the United States Monday in FBI custody.

Michael James Dodd, 59, was brought back to the United States by members of the FBI's Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (S.A.F.E.) Team, a multi-agency task-force dedicated to crimes against children.

The FBI first began investigating Dodd when members of the S.A.F.E. Team traveled to Cambodia in 2008 to meet with law enforcement officials there.

According to a criminal complaint filed against Dodd in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in January, Dodd taught English in Cambodia for students between the ages of 13 and 45 years old.

Dodd was arrested by the Cambodian National Police in October 2008 for an illegal sexual relationship with a 14 year old girl.

According to the complaint, Dodd admitted to an FBI agent during an interview that he traveled to Cambodia because he wasn't allowed to teach school in most places due to a previous sex offense.

Dodd also admitted, the claim states, to having sexual relations with a female minor and to paying the victim's family $50 every two weeks so he could visit with, and eventually marry, the girl.

He also admitted he paid other children to have sex with him in the area where he lived in Cambodia.

Dodd was convicted in a Cambodian court of sexually abusing the girl, and was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Previously, Dodd was arrested in 2001 in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (Saipan) for inappropriately touching thirteen underage female students at an elementary school where he worked.

He served time in prison, and was then put on probation for 15 years and ordered to pay fines and register as a sex offender.

Dodd will have an initial court appearance in Los Angeles on February 23rd.

If convicted of foreign travel to have sex with a child, he faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

American jailed for sex abuse

Feb 3, 2010
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.

Cambodian court convicts US sex offender again

January 28, 2010

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - An American man already serving a 10-year prison term for sexually abusing a teenage girl has been sentenced to three more years for a second offense.

Phnom Penh Municipal Court Judge Chhay Kong on Thursday found Michael James Dodd of Washington, D.C. guilty of soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl and handed him the new sentence.

Last August, the same court sentenced Dodd to 10 years in jail and ordered him to pay 20 million riel (US$4,878) in compensation to a 14-year-old girl after finding him guilty of soliciting sex with her.

Meng Sotheary, Dodd's lawyer, said the court's latest decision was not legally sound but based solely on police reports and the girl's testimony.

New York Man Arrested in Cambodia on Child Porn Charges

Monday, 18 January 2010

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) -- Cambodian police say they have arrested an American man on charges that he drugged a 12-year-old girl and took pornographic photos of her.

The deputy police chief of Preah Sihanouk province says 51-year-old Ronald A. Adams was arrested at his home there Friday after a complaint from the girl's mother. Police say his passport says he is from New York.

A provincial prosecutor says Adams has been charged with illegal drug use and possession of child pornography and could face rape charges if medical tests confirm he physically abused the girl.

Adams is being held in the provincial jail and is unavailable for comment.

Police say he has lived in the seaside province for at least two years and runs a small restaurant there.

Hawaii man accused of sex with Cambodian girl

Thursday, September 10, 2009
AP

HONOLULU — A Hawaii man accused of having illicit sex with a 12-year-old girl in Cambodia is being held without bond in Honolulu pending a detention hearing.

Federal prosecutors say Richard David Mitchell of Kamuela, Hawaii, was arrested by police in Cambodia in August 2008. He remained in custody until he was returned to the U.S. on Saturday, when he was arrested at Honolulu International Airport.

U.S. Attorney Edward Kubo said Tuesday that the prosecution of the 61-year-old Mitchell is part of stepped up efforts to identify and prosecute "sex tourists" who travel to Cambodia to engage in sex acts with children.

According to court documents, witnesses reported seeing Mitchell engaging in curbside sex acts with the girl in August of last year.