American Sex Offender Mark Lucius is Working at BIA in Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Given that he has a 1987 conviction for kidnapping and a later conviction for soliciting child sex and child porn, and the embassy is aware of this, why doesn't the embassy just drop a hint to the Cambodians to revoke his visa as undesirable?

Maybe it's because the embassy doesn't care about American sexual predators running amok in Cambodia so long as they are not fugitives who owe a "debt" to law enforcement authorities in the USA. If Lucius has already been punished for his crimes in the USA, maybe the embassy is happy to have him living in Cambodia where he's highly unlikely to have access to any American children.
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pczz wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:44 am Really this stuff should never be posted without talking to the professionals. APLE and CCF and proabably a dozen other NGO's and agencies are out there catching these people and blurting it all out over a forum may fuck up their work if a bust is imminent. There is little they can do with no evidence of any wrongdoing and they might have him under surveillance already. it is even possible the reason you are getting the runaround from the embassy is because he is under investigation. lets say he is involved in a pedo ring and they are monitoring him and collecting evidence on who he associates with etc as part of a bigger operation. You could blow it so please put it through the proper channels. Any big busts going on CCF or APLE will know about it almost for sure
APLE and the FBI received reports of Mickey Rife molesting kids at Hi Bridge in 2013 and did nothing to remove him from the school and he continued molesting kids at Hi Bridge for five years.

If the APLE strategy is "let the foreigner molest multiple children over and over, until we decide to catch him in the act and tell the world we caught a guy who molested multiple children, so as to drive up our fundraising" then I really want no part of that.
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Cam Nivag wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:38 pm Given that he has a 1987 conviction for kidnapping and a later conviction for soliciting child sex and child porn...

If Lucius has already been punished for his crimes in the USA...
Well in his case the 'punishment' does not end with the completion of a prison sentence, correct?

He is forced to enroll in a registry as a sex offender, which comes with tons of stipulations, like they can't live within certain distances of schools, playgrounds etc.

Also if he moves he has to update the registry.

Is it really US policy to continue to issue these guys passports? If he can't be within 100 meters or whatever, from a playground, how the hell is he getting issued a passport?!?
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Brody wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:04 pm
Is it really US policy to continue to issue these guys passports? If he can't be within 100 meters or whatever, from a playground, how the hell is he getting issued a passport?!?
He's free to leave the USA. It's state/local laws that prohibit him from living near schools in those localities. We don't want him kidnapping any more American kids. He's Cambodia's problem now.
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Cam Nivag wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 6:00 pm
pczz wrote: Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:44 am Really this stuff should never be posted without talking to the professionals. APLE and CCF and proabably a dozen other NGO's and agencies are out there catching these people and blurting it all out over a forum may fuck up their work if a bust is imminent. There is little they can do with no evidence of any wrongdoing and they might have him under surveillance already. it is even possible the reason you are getting the runaround from the embassy is because he is under investigation. lets say he is involved in a pedo ring and they are monitoring him and collecting evidence on who he associates with etc as part of a bigger operation. You could blow it so please put it through the proper channels. Any big busts going on CCF or APLE will know about it almost for sure
APLE and the FBI received reports of Mickey Rife molesting kids at Hi Bridge in 2013 and did nothing to remove him from the school and he continued molesting kids at Hi Bridge for five years.

If the APLE strategy is "let the foreigner molest multiple children over and over, until we decide to catch him in the act and tell the world we caught a guy who molested multiple children, so as to drive up our fundraising" then I really want no part of that.
So how does this help in this case then? Someone complains to the school, the school sacks him. Hurrqah Hurrah the kids in that scholl have been saved, except now he is in a village school somewhere and those kids are not saved. You have moved the problem, not fixed it!
Governments around the world would far rather leave their citizens who are child abusers here abusing Cambodian children than have them at home abusing their own, unless there is an active warrant. All the NGO's have high workloads and limited resources. I have never advocated doing nothing, all I have said is discuss it with the professionals first. We hav ehad 2 of these "exposes" in here recently. One was a hacked fb account but the guy could have been killed on the basis of this fake news. Now you have to track this american down again and report him again because he is a risk to the village
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I asked an old Khmer friend that lived near where he was in PP. They said he was working in Kandal at a school that pays for his housing on top of a salary. No other details other than he found the job on a facebook post. He goes by aliases of Jony Mark and Jony Bear on social media. I am not sure how NGOs work and how much authority they have. All of his information is within the first page of this thread if anyone really wants to report it.

What strikes me is that he had to register somewhere, the Phillipines, but he has been in Cambodia for X amount of years. Should he not have to register in Cambodia? It really shows how little the government looks into these cases once they leave the country.
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I'm going to ride the Lucius infamy wave.

Another pedo started to work at the BIA on Monday. No need to rage, he's gone. If you need to vent, I recommend him instead of BIA, they did much better this time.
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https://por.state.mn.us/OffenderSearch.aspx (Or google the "Minnesota Predatory Offender Registration" > click Predatory Offender Registration > search for non-compliant predatory offenders )

He set off few red flags and I did a search on him. I like to be a pretty straight forward guy, so I confronted him straight away on wednesday morning. Asked politely to leave and never come back. Assured that I'll try hard to make his career in teaching kids impossible. Offered help finding legit job if needed. Shook hands. Said goodbye. My faith in humanity is fair to great. He waited for me after my work, approached on a moto, tried to take pictures / videos of my face. Said, that he will hire tuk tuk drivers to beat me up to a pulp, to "break your back so you will never fuck that wife of yours". Needles to say I got pretty pissed, called him a pedophile pretty loudly, and he ran away. Later that day he wrote on my wife youtube's channel (I was stupid enough to share it with him, picture related Image, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaaJ6- ... hVcbJPcuQA - if you'd like to enjoy some premium porch renovation content). I think this person is actively trying to become my nemesis. Am I really out of my rights not to want him around kids? Am I the baddie here?

Edward, if you're reading this - leave my wife out of this or I swear that I will devote myself to making your life as miserable as you deserve it to be.
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@TrueAnon why didn’t you denounce him.
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DrRawBlueGreen wrote: Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:07 am @TrueAnon why didn’t you denounce him.
Yeah. And give him a big thumbs down!
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