Jason Baumbach Busted - He looks kinda familiar
The maid's daughter coming to help Mom?gavinmac wrote:Why would a 40 year old white man have a 13 year old Khmer girl visting his apartment alone that he's not related to?
If the only evidence of this is that the Cambodian police said it, then there is no good reason to believe it.gavinmac wrote:Also, the police didn't just say they found porn on his computer, they found CHILD porn. Those are two fundamentlly different things. At least to me.
If he really did confess, then is is quite obviously guilty. How do we know he really confessed?gavinmac wrote:Lastly, he confessed to some kind of fooling around with the girl, though he denied penetration.
There are plenty of possible reasons, neither extortion nor revenge being the least of them.gavinmac wrote:There are two possible conclusions here. He's guilty, or the police and the girl are trying to frame him by fabricating evidence against him for no apparent reason.
I have no idea if this guy is guilty or not, though I expect that he is. Still, except for the confession (assuming he really confessed) none of these reasons do much to support his guilt.
That is wholly up to the journalists. The reality of the situation has never had much to do with it.MD wrote:The sooner Cambodia looses its "paedophile paradise" reputation the better.
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If it was, then Baumbach should have known better.fopro wrote:The maid's daughter coming to help Mom?
A couple of years ago when I was living and working in Battambang, I had the best housekeeper ever. Such a lovely woman. I paid her a bit over the odds (but not much) and in return she waited on me hand and foot to the extent that I lived like a king and got fat on her sumptious Khmer home cooking (a typical lunch would be Khmer omelette, a rich green pork/coconut curry with Battambang rice and a side order of fried ribs).
However, she had a couple of daughters (maybe 13 and 15 years old), who, as is the Khmer way, would want to come and meet their mom after school and help her out with her work.
This I allowed, on condition that they never set foot in the villa itself and sat waiting for their mom in the compund grounds (there were a few benches and tables under the shade thankfully).
I really didn't like having to do this but living in a political climate where white men are seen by certain NGOs on one hand as as 'the enemy' and the other hand as and their meal ticket to lavish future funding, I felt obliged to protect myself in this way.
The two young girls, however, could never quite understand why they couldn't help their mom out with her job.
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Generally agreed. It still may only have been the maid's daughter coming to help Mom, but given the environment in which we live, appearances in such matters are often more important than reality.keeping_it_riel wrote:If it was, then Baumbach should have known better.fopro wrote:The maid's daughter coming to help Mom?
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Relatives of the Jason are trying to establish a more direct line of communication with Westerners here - what's understandable considering the circumstances - the media reports are not always accurate and news is thin on the ground.Doctor Seuss wrote:My mate had Jason's mum or sister or someone ask him to add her to his Facebook friends list the other day. He didn't even know the guy. Anyone else?
As an aside, Jason ran an online business which is now off-line - anyone know when it went off-line, before or after his arrest?
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Here's a follow up. Baumbach has been sentenced to an unlucky 13 years in prison for having sex with the 13 year old girl.
Apparently, the court was unconvinced by his compelling defense arguments of: (a) "I didn't have sex with her," and (b) "What's the big deal, we were engaged to be married."
Apparently, the court was unconvinced by his compelling defense arguments of: (a) "I didn't have sex with her," and (b) "What's the big deal, we were engaged to be married."
Cambodian court sentences Michigan man to 13 years
Associated Press
6:56 AM CDT, March 19, 2009
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A Michigan man was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison on charges of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl, a Cambodian court official said.
Jason Todd Bambauch, 40, also was ordered to pay 20 million riel ($5,000) as compensation to the girl's family, Judge Chan Madina said.
Bambauch, a designer whose hometown was not immediately known, was arrested last September. Police charged he had sexual relations with the girl for more than a year, paying her $100 a month for her school fees as well as other money.
Bambauch's lawyer, Chap Keo, said his client never had sex with the girl and that her parents promised that he could marry her when she turned 18. The lawyer said Bambauch would appeal the verdict.
Lax law enforcement and poverty have made Cambodia a prime destination for foreigners seeking sex with minors. But police recently have stepped up efforts to fight the crime, and several foreigners are serving lengthy prison terms.
No wonder he first claimed to be her adoptive father on arrest. Enjoy life in jail scumbag!gavinmac wrote:Here's a follow up. Baumbach has been sentenced to an unlucky 13 years in prison for having sex with the 13 year old girl.
Apparently, the court was unconvinced by his compelling defense arguments of: (a) "I didn't have sex with her," and (b) "What's the big deal, we were engaged to be married."
He had known the girl since last year, through her older sister, and had asked the girl's parents to be an adoptive father, Teng Manet said. He had paid the girl $100 per month to study English.
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