Roger Dale Green, 59, from Tennesse, escorted by Cambodian police, walks into a hotel in the capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Jan. (AP/HENG SINITH)PHNOM PENH (AFP) - An American man has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing two Cambodian girls, according to the police reports.
Roger Green, 59, was detained when police raided his hotel room and discovered the girls, aged 11 and 12, authorities said.
Stuffed toy animals were also found in the hotel room.
He is being held under Cambodia's debauchery law, a statute which covers a broad range of sex offenses, said Keo Thea, deputy chief of the municipal police's anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection unit.
Green, from the US state of Tennessee, is expected to be formally charged in court on Wednesday.
Cambodia has struggled to shed its reputation as a haven for paedophiles, putting dozens of foreigners in jail for child sex crimes or deporting them to face trial in their home countries since 2003.
At least 10 foreigners were arrested last year in a widespread crackdown on paedophiles, doubling the total number detained in 2005.
In October, American Donald Ramirez, a 50-year-old policeman from the US city of San Francisco, killed himself in his jail cell after being arrested for sexually abusing two underage Cambodian girls.
Roger Green, 59, was detained when police raided his hotel room and discovered the girls, aged 11 and 12, authorities said.
Stuffed toy animals were also found in the hotel room.
He is being held under Cambodia's debauchery law, a statute which covers a broad range of sex offenses, said Keo Thea, deputy chief of the municipal police's anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection unit.
Green, from the US state of Tennessee, is expected to be formally charged in court on Wednesday.
Cambodia has struggled to shed its reputation as a haven for paedophiles, putting dozens of foreigners in jail for child sex crimes or deporting them to face trial in their home countries since 2003.
At least 10 foreigners were arrested last year in a widespread crackdown on paedophiles, doubling the total number detained in 2005.
In October, American Donald Ramirez, a 50-year-old policeman from the US city of San Francisco, killed himself in his jail cell after being arrested for sexually abusing two underage Cambodian girls.
1 comment:
Under Lung Di(Nguyen Van Son)police regulations are ludicrous.
Police usually is the source of devil making. It is its agenda to humiliate foreigners to raise curtain to hide own hypocrisy. This is unimpressive.They will parade foreigners for press driven schematic as devils who allegedly bought services from those girls in the ridiculous social setting under the strong man government.
Clearly government is not only weak but very despicable incapable under the ruler of no morality.
If government is so just and nationalistic,why it does not see to fix poor and blood and pus for pleasure market to its extinction?
This is a critical weakness in leadership that people are in serious jeorpardy and hopelessness to even consider sleeping around in early age is the venue to wealth.
It is so un Buddhistic or in that matter un religious society.
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