Briton arrested in Cambodia on child sex (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.
Off with his balls!
Off with his balls!
Not sure, but given that he had been caught before when he worked here, but got off due to lack of evidence, would seem to make him a bit of a focal point on arrival as a tourist.fopro wrote:So let me get this straight. Knowing in advance that he was seeking children for sex, the police followed him to Kien Svay, allowed him to buy two little girls and sexually abuse them for several days, then arrested him. Is that how it worked?
One thing that it highlights though is that anybody can get a visa - this guy should never have been allowed back in, even on suspicion. But then again, perhaps this time justice will prevail - oh hang on, it is Cambodia..... ho hum.......
According to the article, they knew of his plans "in advance" and followed him from Phnom Penh, where he bought two children and abused them for several days before they arrested him.chubacca wrote:Not sure, but given that he had been caught before when he worked here, but got off due to lack of evidence, would seem to make him a bit of a focal point on arrival as a tourist.
As the police say they knew of his plans in advance, I wonder if they allowed him back in with busting him in mind. Just a thought.chubacca wrote:One thing that it highlights though is that anybody can get a visa - this guy should never have been allowed back in, even on suspicion...
PPP version of the story:
Briton accused of sex crimes
Tuesday, 07 September 2010 15:04 Chrann Chamroeun
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MUNICIPAL police have arrested a 50-year-old Briton they believe paid to have sex with two underage girls, officials said yesterday.
The suspect was arrested at a guesthouse in Kandal province’s Kien Svay district on Sunday night.
Police also arrested a 46-year-old tuk-tuk driver who allegedly arranged for the suspect to have sex with the girls, aged 11 and 12.
The owner of the guesthouse and the mother of one of the girls were also arrested.
Keo Thea, director of the municipal Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Bureau, said yesterday that the arrest followed several days of investigation.
“He was staying in the room with the two girls whom he had sex with for six days, and whom he paid US$1,500 each for a weeklong contract before we arrested him on the last day,” he said.
“We suspected him of also having sex with many other girls, whom he always paid $100 to have sex with.”
He said the four suspects were being held at the police station for further questioning, and would be sent to Municipal Court today.
“The British national is under primary charges of purchasing child prostitution, while the other three face primary charges of being accomplices to the purchase of child prostitution,” he said.
Samleang Seila, director of child protection NGO Action Pour Les Enfants, said yesterday that his organisation had informed police of its suspicions of the British national prior to his arrest.
“We saw him with several underage girls, buying them underwear and candy,” he said.
“We will provide lawyers for the victims, and vow to cooperate with police as we suspect him of sexually abusing another 15-year-old girl, but we don’t know her whereabouts.”
According to a statement released by APLE yesterday, the suspect was previously arrested in 2005 and charged with similar child sex offences.
However, he was acquitted after two of his alleged victims dropped their complaints against him.
In that case, he allegedly posed as a doctor at an orphanage in Kien Svay district’s Prek Pra village in order to gain access to the victims, but his “unusual treatment methods and limited medical knowledge” began to raise suspicions among staff members there, according to the statement.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court found him not guilty for lack of evidence, as did the Appeal and Supreme Courts, according to the APLE statement.
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