Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published March 17, 2009.
Thirty years after the genocide, Cambodia is still one of the poorest nations in Southeast Asia, where 35 percent of the population lives on less than half-a-dollar a day. Despite – or maybe because – of its poverty, the country remains a favorite destination for pedophiles. A U.S. tourist and a French tourist were both arrested this month on sexual abuse charges, and last year a California man was handed over to the US Department of Justice and tried and convicted on seven felony charges in San Francisco; he’s now serving a more than 200 year sentence. FSRN's Khortieth Him met a young girl in Phnom Penh, who was one of the seven survivors sexually abused by the California tourist.
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