Mrs.Lucysnow
Valued Senior Member
After reading the Phnom Penh Post today where yet another foreign national has been arrested for engaging in child pornography or child sexual abuse I am wondering, as I have for a while, why it is that someone who has committed a criminal offense is allowed to travel abroad to commit the same offense. It is known that the legal system in Cambodia is open to corruption and that being convicted of a crime does not mean justice will be served. I believe that the best way to deal with these types of criminals is for Western nations to renege passports for anyone who has been convicted of child pornography.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....ional-news/man-sentenced-over-child-porn.html
This way there won't be stories like this every other month in Cambodia:
"A twice-convicted Belgian paedophile who moved into a victim's home after being released from a Cambodian prison plans to marry the victim's mother, national media reported Tuesday. Anti-trafficking police said Philippe Dessart, who was released from prison April 4, proposed to his victim's mother shortly before he left for Belgium on June 3, The Cambodia Daily reported.
Dessart was released after serving three years of an 18-year prison term for abusing the then-13-year-old boy after a successful appeal of his sentence.
Police said Dessart travelled to Belgium to arrange documents for the marriage and would return to Cambodia in the next few weeks."
http://khmerization.blogspot.com/2009/06/convicted-belgian-paedophile-to-wed.html
Dessart was convicted in Belgium on child sex charges. Developing nations cannot deal with this issue and need help from nations that do not have less issues with corruption in their justice systems.
Here is another one:
"A 59-year-old Michael James Dodd is listed as a sexual offender on a Web site of the Department of Law Enforcement of the State of Florida in the US. The listing gives his last registered address as Syracuse, New York."
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/130194/American-arrested-in-Cambodia-on-child-sex-charges
The majority of sexual offenders discovered in Cambodia had already been convicted of such a crime in their own country so why should they be allowed to leave? Tracking systems like Megan's Law becomes irrelevant if the person is allowed to apply for a passport and leave the country.
For the record I have a difficult time accepting Megan's Law as I think there should be no parole for someone who commits these crimes but if they are going to infringe on someone's privacy via this law after they have served their time then I see no reason why they shouldn't lose their right to travel abroad.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index....ional-news/man-sentenced-over-child-porn.html
This way there won't be stories like this every other month in Cambodia:
"A twice-convicted Belgian paedophile who moved into a victim's home after being released from a Cambodian prison plans to marry the victim's mother, national media reported Tuesday. Anti-trafficking police said Philippe Dessart, who was released from prison April 4, proposed to his victim's mother shortly before he left for Belgium on June 3, The Cambodia Daily reported.
Dessart was released after serving three years of an 18-year prison term for abusing the then-13-year-old boy after a successful appeal of his sentence.
Police said Dessart travelled to Belgium to arrange documents for the marriage and would return to Cambodia in the next few weeks."
http://khmerization.blogspot.com/2009/06/convicted-belgian-paedophile-to-wed.html
Dessart was convicted in Belgium on child sex charges. Developing nations cannot deal with this issue and need help from nations that do not have less issues with corruption in their justice systems.
Here is another one:
"A 59-year-old Michael James Dodd is listed as a sexual offender on a Web site of the Department of Law Enforcement of the State of Florida in the US. The listing gives his last registered address as Syracuse, New York."
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/130194/American-arrested-in-Cambodia-on-child-sex-charges
The majority of sexual offenders discovered in Cambodia had already been convicted of such a crime in their own country so why should they be allowed to leave? Tracking systems like Megan's Law becomes irrelevant if the person is allowed to apply for a passport and leave the country.
For the record I have a difficult time accepting Megan's Law as I think there should be no parole for someone who commits these crimes but if they are going to infringe on someone's privacy via this law after they have served their time then I see no reason why they shouldn't lose their right to travel abroad.