U.S. pedophile and former professor commits sex crimes in Cambodia, sentenced to 210 years imprisonment in the U.S.

[geovalin]

A former university professor Michael J. Pepe, 68, a pedophile, was sentenced to  210 years in prison by a Los Angeles judge  for molesting underage girls in Cambodia. U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer rejected the defense’s position that such a long sentence would be unduly harsh.“Pepe confined numerous preteen girls in his home,” said Judge Fischer. “The horrors he inflicted on those girls was more than unduly harsh, it was torture.”

 

In papers filed before the hearing, the defense team, headed by veteran attorney Charles C. Brown, argued for a sentence of 25 years, saying Pepe’s “age and feeble health mitigate against the imposition of a sentence of death in prison.”

 

The government team, headed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie S. Christensen, countered that Pepe’s health problems didn’t stop him from “taking Viagra and drugging, beating, and raping children on a near daily basis in Cambodia.” Pepe, a former U. S. Marine Corps captain, retired to Phnom Penh in 2003 and began teaching management classes at Pannasastra University and befriending Cambodian elites.

 

 

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https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501025239/u-s-pedophile-and-former-professor-commits-sex-crimes-in-cambodia-sentenced-to-210-years-imprisonment-in-the-u-s/

 

[worgeordie]

5 minutes ago, geovalin said:

defense’s position that such a long sentence would be unduly harsh.

No, I don't think so 

regards Worgeordie