South Korean Pastor Sentenced to 14 Years for Child Sex Abuse
September 1, 2017
- A South Korean pastor accused of sexually abusing several girls who lived with him at his Siem Reap City church was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years, an unprecedentedly long jail term for such crimes, according to one NGO worker.

Judge Sam Bunpov convicted 63-year-old Park Youl with purchase of child prostitution and sexual intercourse with a minor under 15 years of age, according to Siem Reap provincial court spokesman Ream Chanmony.

Mr. Park was arrested by anti-trafficking police in October on allegations that he molested nine girls on multiple occasions over several years and bribed them and their families with rice, cash and motorbikes in exchange for silence.

Khoem Vando, program director at Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), an anti-child sex abuse NGO which launched the initial investigation, said Mr. Park was also ordered to pay $70,000 total in compensation to seven of the nine victims.The victims, many of whom had lived with Mr. Park at his Christian church, were aged between 12 and 17 at the time of the abuse, according to APLE.

At the time of Mr. Park’s arrest, provincial anti-human trafficking police chief Duong Thavry said that one of the victims had decided to alert police of the abuse because she was angry that the pastor had refused to give her a motorbike, which he had given his other victims.
“The victims did not think it was a kind of sexual abuse. They thought they loved the pastor and they did not think of complaining,” Ms. Thavry said at the time.
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Anybody interested in sharing the price of a shank?

Fuckit, I'l pay for it myself.

Vengeance, saith the Lord, is mine.

From the APLE website:
Korean Child Sex Offender Sentenced to 14 Years
Siem Reap – Today, 31 August 2017, Siem Reap Provincial Court pronounced a verdict, finding a 63-year-old Korean man, Mr. Park Youl, guilty of two offenses: Purchase of child prostitution and sexual intercourse with minors under fifteen years. Park was sentenced to 14 year imprisonment and ordered to pay a total of USD70.000 compensation to seven of the nine victims. The court also ordered Park’s deportation from Cambodia after he completes his sentencing.

In February 2015, APLE Cambodia received a tip-off from a local informant and started the investigation immediately in collaboration with Siem Reap provincial anti human trafficking and juvenile protection police. Following almost a two-year long investigation, Park was arrested in October 2016 by the provincial police who had identified a total of nine female victims aged between 12 and 17 years.

The victims who have been receiving social and legal support from APLE and its partner organizations since their rescues confirmed the account of multiple sexual encounters with Park in exchange for money and valuable assets during the hearing.