Wednesday, 20 May 2009

Cambodian police arrest US man on child abuse, pornography charges


Posted : Wed, 20 May 2009
Author : DPA

Phnom Penh - Cambodian police arrested a US man whom they accused of sexually abusing three young boys and producing child pornography, national media reported Wednesday. Police said Mark Stephan Freitag, 60, had committed threeacts of abuse against the children, including indecent acts, sexual intercourse and producing child pornography, the Cambodia Daily newspaper reported.

Anti-trafficking police chief Keo Thea said Freitag had donated rice to poor families in Kandal province, which surrounds Phnom Penh, in return for taking the boys on day trips to the capital and other provinces.

Keo Thea said Freitag confessed to committing the crimes after he was arrested Monday night in Phnom Penh.

1 comment:

care said...

Child abuse can be defined as causing or permitting any harmful or offensive contact on a child’s body and any communication or transaction of any kind which humiliates shames or frightens the child. Some child development experts go a bit further and define child abuse as any act or omission, which fails to nature or in the upbringing of the children.