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by The Flint Journal and wire reports
Friday March 20, 2009
BURTON, Michigan -- A former Burton man will spend 13 years in a Cambodian prison for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl.
Jason T. Baumbach, 40, was also ordered to pay the girls family about 20 million riels -- the U.S. equivalent of $5,000.
Baumbach was arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, last September on allegations he was having sex with a young girl he had met after moving to Cambodia in 2007.
Officials told a local newspaper there last year that the girl was having sex with Baumbach because he was paying the $100 monthly bill for her English lessons.
He had apparently met the girl through her sister.
Baumbach's lawyer, Chap Keo, said his client never had sex with the girl and that her parents promised that he could marry her when she turned 18.
The lawyer said Baumbach will appeal the conviction. Baumbach was among at least seven foreign nationals arrested in a Cambodian crackdown on child sex.
by The Flint Journal and wire reports
Friday March 20, 2009
BURTON, Michigan -- A former Burton man will spend 13 years in a Cambodian prison for sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl.
Jason T. Baumbach, 40, was also ordered to pay the girls family about 20 million riels -- the U.S. equivalent of $5,000.
Baumbach was arrested in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, last September on allegations he was having sex with a young girl he had met after moving to Cambodia in 2007.
Officials told a local newspaper there last year that the girl was having sex with Baumbach because he was paying the $100 monthly bill for her English lessons.
He had apparently met the girl through her sister.
Baumbach's lawyer, Chap Keo, said his client never had sex with the girl and that her parents promised that he could marry her when she turned 18.
The lawyer said Baumbach will appeal the conviction. Baumbach was among at least seven foreign nationals arrested in a Cambodian crackdown on child sex.
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