The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Monday convicted a British national of purchasing child prostitution and committing indecent acts against minors, sentencing him to eight years in prison and ordering him to pay a total of $5,000 in fines and compensation.

Michael Glyn Jones, 55, was found guilty of having sex with an 11-year-old girl and then paying the child and her mother. He was also convicted of molesting three other girls between the ages of 7 and 9.

Mr. Jones was arrested outside Olympic Market on June 24 after the victims’ mothers lodged complaints about the abuse and municipal anti-human trafficking police launched a joint investigation with child protection group Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE).

“The court decides to sentence Michael Glyn Jones to eight years in jail and fine him 4 million riel [about $1,000] for purchasing child prostitution and committing indecent acts against minors under the age of 15,” Presiding Judge Ly Sokleng announced in the courtroom Monday.

“After he finishes his jail term, the court also bans him from Cambodia,” the judge added. “[The court] orders the defendant to pay 8 million riel [about $2,000] to each of the two plaintiffs.”

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terrible that this goes on so much, not enough people get arrested!

Eight years in jail in Cambodia? Send to jail 2years for one girl abuse? How about other girls who he didn't tell?

In September 2015, Michael Glyn Jones' sentence was reduced from 8 to 5 years. Yesterday the prosecutor demanded that the reduction in sentence be overturned. The verdict is due on August 10.
Photo: Kim Sarom.
Found guilty last April, he was sentenced to eight years in prison and ordered to pay each victim about $2,000. Five months later, the Appeal Court reduced his sentence to five years after ruling that while he had touched the girls inappropriately, he had not had sex with them.
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