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Cambodian police arrest Aussie on child sex

PHNOM PENH, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian juvenile protection police on Tuesday arrested an Australian national on suspicion of purchasing child prostitution from at least two underage girls, a senior police officer said.

"Sixty-five-year-old Sydney man Trevor Lake, country manager of a big tour company in Cambodia, was arrested Tuesday morning in Siem Reap province on suspicion of purchasing child prostitution from two underage girls," Duong Thavary, chief of the Siem Reap Provincial Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Police, told Xinhua via telephone.

While searching his apartment, police found in a laptop pornographic images and video footages of Trevor Lake having sex with the girls.

Two laptops, three cameras and two external hard disks were confiscated for further analysis.

"We charge him with producing child porn, which could face up to 10 years in jail if convicted," said the official.

A child protection NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), which assisted police to investigate and arrest the suspect, said Trevor Lake became subject of an investigation after one of the victims stated that he paid her to have sex with him and that the sexual activities were filmed and photographed.

According to APLE, there are possibly many more victims to be identified from the seized images and concerned agents are working hard with police to determine any distribution of the pornographic materials online.

Cambodia launched an anti-pedophilia operation in 2003 in a bid to end its reputation as a haven for child sex offenders. Since then, dozens of foreigners have been imprisoned for child sex crimes.

 

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140805/cambodian-police-arrest-aussie-child-sex

 

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