AFP
A 50-year-old British man has been arrested for a second time in Cambodia on suspicion of sexually abusing underage girls, one as young as 11, police said on Monday.
Michael Julian Leach, from London, was arrested at a guesthouse near Phnom Penh on Sunday, said Keo Thea, chief of the capital's anti-human-trafficking and juvenile protection unit.
"Police had followed him from Phnom Penh because we knew in advance that he would go to find children in Kandal province," he told AFP.
Leach, in Cambodia as a tourist, was being held for allegedly soliciting sex from two girls aged 11 and 13, Keo Thea said, adding that three Cambodian people were also arrested for procuring the girls.
Leach was first arrested in Cambodia 2005 - when he was working as a doctor at a children's organisation - for allegedly having sex with three underage girls, police said.
He was freed after the court dropped charges against him, citing a lack of evidence.
Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-paedophilia push in 2003 in a bid to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.
Michael Julian Leach, from London, was arrested at a guesthouse near Phnom Penh on Sunday, said Keo Thea, chief of the capital's anti-human-trafficking and juvenile protection unit.
"Police had followed him from Phnom Penh because we knew in advance that he would go to find children in Kandal province," he told AFP.
Leach, in Cambodia as a tourist, was being held for allegedly soliciting sex from two girls aged 11 and 13, Keo Thea said, adding that three Cambodian people were also arrested for procuring the girls.
Leach was first arrested in Cambodia 2005 - when he was working as a doctor at a children's organisation - for allegedly having sex with three underage girls, police said.
He was freed after the court dropped charges against him, citing a lack of evidence.
Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-paedophilia push in 2003 in a bid to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.
1 comment:
This man was arrested 2 days ago in WALKABOUT Hotel in Phnom Penh Street 51. He sexually abused a 11year old child in Kandal.
Why they write he was arrested OUTSIDE Phnom Penh? Why the police not name that he was arrested in WALKABOUT Hotel where he stayed?
Everybody know what is going on in WALKABOUT Hotel but Police do nothing because the Australian Owners have protection from a General.
They also opened a new Hotel beside the WALKABOUT Hotel which cost a few 100.000 US Dollar.
Guess where this money come from?
100% of the Girls in WALKABOUT Hotel are prostitutes which are selling their body and drugs to Foreigners.
Why the Government do nothing to stop it?
Do one General have so much power to legalize this daily Crime in Walkabout Hotel?
Next time you are passing the WALKABOUT Hotel have a look from outside into the Hotel Bar and you see I am right! 100% Hookers!
Should be a case for Bun Rani!
I hope she has pity with the abused children and take action.
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