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

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

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Phnom Penh, Cambodia: A 51 year old American man, JOHN EDWARD ECKER, (DOB 06.17.1966), who is a convicted sex offender that was arrested under the name JOHN E ECKER with child porn in Florida, was arrested for living in Cambodia without a passport and being drunk enough to disturb the local people. He was also sleeping on the streets.

On May 19 at 10:04 am, the department of investigations and procedures took JOHN EDWARD ECKER from Wat Phnom police post to the immigration department to follow legal procedures.

There has been a recent crackdown on Westerners, always male, that have become homeless in Cambodia, and they have been getting arrested and deported, and it looks like this trend will continue. It's a big win when Cambodian authorities catch and deport western/foreign sex offenders and deport the back to their home countries.

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According to John E Ecker's social media profile, he publicly announced 4 days ago that he was leaving Cambodia and also seems to have spent a lot of time in Sihanoukville.

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So, they arrested him, he obviously has no money, the US embassy could care less
what happens next?
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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.

[This comment was made BEFORE his criminal past was discovered.]
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I believe he was a regular at GSM.... certainly looks like same guy


And only 51? He looks like crap
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Artful Dodger wrote: Sat May 19, 2018 5:10 pm I believe he was a regular at GSM.... certainly looks like same guy


And only 51? He looks like crap
Looks like he borrowed his t-shirt off one of the girls at GSM
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Hmmmm, it can't possibly be this John E Ecker from Florida with an almost identical date of birth, can it? What are the chances that someone like that would end up homeless and on the streets of Cambodia...

https://arrestfacts.com/John-Ecker-5B2005

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They both hold their eyebrows up when they get mugshot pics, too.
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Hell, maybe he looks more similar to this guy, I don't know.

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General Mackevili wrote: Sat May 19, 2018 6:49 pm Hmmmm, it can't possibly be this John E Ecker from Florida with an almost identical date of birth, can it? What are the chances that someone like that would end up homeless and on the streets of Cambodia...

https://arrestfacts.com/John-Ecker-5B2005

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They both hold their eyebrows up when they get mugshot pics, too.
Good fishing GM. DOB given here was 06.11.1966, but in the US, DOB is written MM/DD/YY, so that reads as 11 or could be 17/06/1966. The US photo is at least 10 years old, from 2008 or before.
If it's the same guy, and it looks like him, this is yet another child abuser who has washed up on the shores of the KOW. Good riddance then.
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So basically he's a paedo?
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What are the odds he was teaching at Home of English?
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