Englishman MARK SMITH (Golden Bridge International School Vice Principal) Arrested in Cambodia for Child Sex Crimes

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Maybe in 1998. 2018, not so easy to disappear.
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Jerry Atrick wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:06 am Maybe in 1998. 2018, not so easy to disappear.
Really? Lambert Struik is back in Cambodia as a free man having changed his name from Stefan. His customers in Belgium don't mind paying for it, and his customers are mostly kids and families.

Counter me with examples?
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fax wrote:
Jerry Atrick wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:06 am Maybe in 1998. 2018, not so easy to disappear.
Really? Lambert Struik is back in Cambodia as a free man having changed his name from Stefan. His customers in Belgium don't mind paying for it, and his customers are mostly kids and families.

Counter me with examples?
He's even getting recent features in the Khmer Times https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50503421/h ... -province/
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epidemiks wrote:
fax wrote:
Jerry Atrick wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:06 am Maybe in 1998. 2018, not so easy to disappear.
Really? Lambert Struik is back in Cambodia as a free man having changed his name from Stefan. His customers in Belgium don't mind paying for it, and his customers are mostly kids and families.

Counter me with examples?
He's even getting recent features in the Khmer Times https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50503421/h ... -province/
Quality journalism.
Not a mention of the elephant in the room.
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He could just start calling himself Mark E. Smith, and he'd be on page 10 of the internet where no-one looks. Physicist.
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epidemiks wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:40 am
fax wrote:
Jerry Atrick wrote: Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:06 am Maybe in 1998. 2018, not so easy to disappear.
Really? Lambert Struik is back in Cambodia as a free man having changed his name from Stefan. His customers in Belgium don't mind paying for it, and his customers are mostly kids and families.

Counter me with examples?
He's even getting recent features in the Khmer Times https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50503421/h ... -province/

You would have thought the Journalist of that article would have known all about him, being a psychic and all....(the gawker article is an especially funny read about her and her visit from a giant praying mantis)
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/11847 ... er-of-bkk/

http://gawker.com/how-an-american-ngo-w ... 1705313082
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UPDATE: Smith has returned to the UK and been put on the sex offenders register.

A former teacher who was found guilty of molesting a five-year-old girl while working in Cambodia has been told to register on the sex offenders register, but insists he is not guilty.

Mark Smith was convicted of an indecent sexual act against a minor at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on March 22 this year.

Smith, who lives at Cotoneaster Court, insisted at the hearing at Great Yarmouth Magistrates’ Court that he would: “Prove his innocence and overturn the conviction.”

MORE: http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/crime/forme ... -1-5663126
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Randolphgb wrote: Thu Aug 23, 2018 10:36 am Smith, who lives at Cotoneaster Court, insisted at the hearing at Great Yarmouth Magistrates’ Court that he would: “Prove his innocence and overturn the conviction.”
He can't really, his 3 month window to appeal the guilty verdict in Cambodia is up.
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Wait a minute, I thought poster sousadeyy said Smith was "cleared of all charges" and that reports of his conviction and suspended sentence are fake news? Why would the English courts say he's a convicted pedophile, and why would Smith say he wants to overturn the conviction, if he was cleared of all charges and never convicted?

This must all be fake news.
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Edit... I misunderstood the timeline, my post was wrong
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