|
|
|
|
|||
|
|||||
|
A
Cambodian court today sentenced a "After
a long investigation and listening to the answers and conclusions of several witnesses,
the girls' lawyer, the prosecutor and our accurate judgment, the court
understands that Graham Robert Cleghorn had sex with under-aged Cambodian
girls," Judge Plong Chhlam said after announcing a guilty verdict. Cleghorn,
57, will be deported after completing his jail term in The
defendant was also ordered to pay compensation of $US2,000 ($A2,530) to the
families of each of the five victims. "The
heavy punishment on foreign rapists and paedophiles was a message to let them
know that our country is a place for cultural, not sexual, tourism," he
added. The
judge said the court also found Cleghorn's Cambodian wife Bot Teur, 26,
guilty of conspiracy because she had procured the young women for her
husband, and sentenced her to three years behind bars. "She
was allowed to serve five years of probation instead," as she had been
considered a victim in her husband's sexual exploitation, he said. Cleghorn,
who has lived in Of
the five female victims, only one was an adult and the rest were underage.
They were lured into the couple's house and paid 20 dollars a month living
allowance in return for housekeeping duties and sexual favours, said the
judge. The
court also charged Cleghorn with illegal use of weapons after they found a
pistol and two grenades at his home. Last October, a Phnom Penh court jailed two
Vietnamese men and two women for for 15 years each for running one of the
country's largest known child prostitution rackets.
|
|||||
