Convicted Child Sex Offender JOHN E ECKER From Florida Arrested in Cambodia

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General Mackevili wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 2:01 pmWould be have an arrest warrant out for him, as it looks like he needs to register his address, but he hasn't registered his address in Cambodia.
Registration requirements are determined by the jurisdiction where you live. If you move somewhere that you don't have to register, that's not a crime.
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Don’t pity him, he’s a loud and arrogant meth addict. He used to run around shouting outside the block of rooms I used to stay in “get out wake up smoke some ice”. Absolute nightmare.
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rcurt wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 3:14 pm Don’t pity him, he’s a loud and arrogant meth addict. He used to run around shouting outside the block of rooms I used to stay in “get out wake up smoke some ice”. Absolute nightmare.
Damn. Do you know more about him? Where he worked, etc??
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Looks like a mess, KoW can seriously damage a human being if not careful.
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rcurt wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 3:14 pm He used to run around shouting outside the block of rooms I used to stay in “get out wake up smoke some ice”. Absolute nightmare.
The Pedophile Rooster of Sihanoukville.
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Cam Nivag wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 3:29 pm
rcurt wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 3:14 pm He used to run around shouting outside the block of rooms I used to stay in “get out wake up smoke some ice”. Absolute nightmare.
The Pedophile Rooster of Sihanoukville.
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rcurt wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 3:14 pm Don’t pity him, he’s a loud and arrogant meth addict. He used to run around shouting outside the block of rooms I used to stay in “get out wake up smoke some ice”. Absolute nightmare.
Was that somewhere around Makara St ? Mostly about 5-6am ?
I thought somebody must've shot him.
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xandreu wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 11:36 am
xandreu wrote: Sat May 19, 2018 5:03 pm I have every sympathy for people who fall on hard times here, but wouldn't it make sense to keep enough money aside for a plane ticket home before it gets to this stage? Being homeless and penniless is bad enough. Doing it in a foreign country like Cambodia? No thanks.
Just to be clear, there was no mention of him being a convicted child molester when I wrote this. The thread title has been changed. Clearly I don't have any sympathy for evil scum like that in any capacity.
Evil scum? Am I correct in that you're basing that opinion on that one charge that you really don't know anything about (unless you know more that you're not sharing)? Because based on that charge he's not a convicted child molester - not even close actually. He had pictures, his "crime" violated a piece of legislation. Rapists and murderers are evil scum. Someone having a few pics that we aren't even certain were child porn isn't even on the radar of evil scum. Does he have issues? Possibly. Pedo? Possibly, but as we have no idea what the actual pics are, no way to say. 10's of thousands of people are on the registry for bullshit; family photos that show their own children in the tub or swimming without their tops, peeing in the bushes along the side of a highway, preteen kids who've shown other preteen kids pics of themselves, etc... As to the registry, it's not a child sex registry, it's a sex registry. Just because someone is on it doesn't mean they've ever so much as touched a kid. This dude, he may have problems but his record is of zero concern.
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davebodia wrote: Sun May 20, 2018 5:41 pm Evil scum? Am I correct in that you're basing that opinion on that one charge that you really don't know anything about (unless you know more that you're not sharing)? Because based on that charge he's not a convicted child molester - not even close actually. He had pictures, his "crime" violated a piece of legislation. Rapists and murderers are evil scum. Someone having a few pics that we aren't even certain were child porn isn't even on the radar of evil scum. Does he have issues? Possibly. Pedo? Possibly, but as we have no idea what the actual pics are, no way to say. 10's of thousands of people are on the registry for bullshit; family photos that show their own children in the tub or swimming without their tops, peeing in the bushes along the side of a highway, preteen kids who've shown other preteen kids pics of themselves, etc... As to the registry, it's not a child sex registry, it's a sex registry. Just because someone is on it doesn't mean they've ever so much as touched a kid. This dude, he may have problems but his record is of zero concern.
He was charged with twenty counts of having photos or videos of a child engaged in sexual conduct. He was required to register because American society deems him a threat to the rest of us, someone who shouldn't be allowed near a school, someone the rest of the community should be warned about if he moves into the neighborhood.

Instead, he moved to Sihanoukville.

All "crimes" (no idea why you put that in quotes) violate a piece of legislation.

He's not a preteen kid. He didn't pee in the bushes on the side of the highway.
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davebodia wrote:
Evil scum? Am I correct in that you're basing that opinion on that one charge that you really don't know anything about...?
I assumed it was based on the fact that he was from Florida. :stir:



For the record, I feel I partially to blame for the confusion regarding John E Ecker, as his criminal history wasn't known when we published this, and was edited later to reflect everything we had dug up. We tossed the info around quite a bit behind the scenes, as the DOB reported in Khmer didn't match, but once someone else found his Facebook accounts with his birthdate that matched, it was clear we had the right guy.

Also, we put the charges in the OP as well the screenshot of the charges that Anchor Moy posted a few pages back.

So again, I apologize that you might have read it before it was all put together correctly...



So, to be fair, I wouldn't say he's a child molester, but it also seems like you're saying his charges are no big deal at all. Have you read the charges now? They sound pretty bad, and that's exactly the kind of person that has no business creeping over to Sihanoukville, Cambodia doing a methhead wakeup call where he doesn't even need to register as a sex offender or anything, and can easily get jobs teaching children.

I hope this has all been a misunderstanding, but these charges are clearly far from NO BIG DEAL.
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