Man held on Cambodia sex abuse charges

Saturday, September 11, 2010


Published on Sat Sep 11 15:13:58 BST 2010

A London man has been arrested in Cambodia on charges of having sex with three underage girls.
Michael Julian Leach, 50, from London, was arrested at a guesthouse on the outskirts of the capital, Phnom Penh. He was with the girls aged 10 to 15 who he allegedly paid for sex.
A Phnom Penh judge ordered him held until his trial.
Samleang Seila, director of Action Pour Les Enfants, a child rights group, said two Cambodian men and a woman who helped procure the girls were also arrested.
Cambodia has long been a magnet for foreign paedophiles because of poverty and corrupt law enforcement. But in recent years police and courts have increasingly targeted sex offenders.

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