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Published: Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2009
Jack Louis Sporich, a notorious pedophile who authorities say has molested more than 500 children, was in federal custody and facing new charges Monday after being expelled from Cambodia over the weekend.
Sporich was returned to the United States under the auspices of "Operation Twisted Traveler," an international law enforcement effort aimed at pedophiles who travel as "sex tourists."
Thom Mrozek, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien in Los Angeles, said Sporich was escorted to Los Angeles by immigration officials along with two other suspected child molesters from California. He had been in a Cambodian jail since February facing molestation allegations there.
Sporich, 75, is a wealthy former engineer who prosecutors say has been molesting children since the 1960s. He was convicted in Ventura County of seven counts of molestation and spent nine years in prison before being sent to the Atascadero State Hospital as a "sexually violent predator."
Sporich was the focus of a 2006 Bee series on the failings of California's efforts to treat such predators. He refused treatment at the hospital and won release in May 2004 after two juries were unable to agree on whether he might re-offend.
The Ventura County prosecutor who convicted Sporich said Monday that his return to U.S. custody "means boys somewhere won't be molested, whether it's Cambodia or Thailand or Arizona."
"Wherever Jack Sporich was, he was going to molest young boys between the age of 5 and 8, typically," said David Lehr, now a private attorney in Ventura.
Lehr said the juries that allowed Sporich to go free did so because some jurors believed he was too old to re-offend. But Lehr said pedophiles such as Sporich are rarely slowed by age.
"They're going to molest until they are dead, period," Lehr said, "unless they receive significant treatment and are monitored very, very closely for the rest of their lives."
Sporich settled into retirement in an upscale Sedona, Ariz., condo until 2006, when he was visited by Bee reporters and insisted in an interview he was not a threat to anyone.
He later moved to Cambodia, where federal court documents state he spent $1.2 million building a home near the tourist destination of Siem Reap. He also became engaged to a 22-year-old Cambodian woman.
Sporich was arrested Feb. 2 after an aid agency, Action Pour Les Enfants-Cambodia, alleged that he had lured three Cambodian boys, ages 9 to 12, to his home with toys and candy and molested them. Court documents state he also attracted boys by dropping Cambodian currency in the street as he rode along on a motor bike.
Sporich, who would have faced a sentence of one to three years under Cambodian law if convicted, remained in custody there while authorities worked to bring him back to this country. In the new federal complaint, he faces 30 years.
Acording to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles in April, Sporich claimed in an interview with authorities that the accusations against him were lies.
Authorities allege in the court documents that Sporich paid the parents of his fiancée $1,000 to $2,000 to become engaged to her and also purchased them a motor bike. Sporich and the woman began adopting boys, the documents state, and he mused about someday turning his home near a golf course into a bed-and-breakfast.
Sporich was returned from Cambodia with two other suspects from California: Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 49, of Menlo Park and Erik Leonardus Peeters, 41, of Norwalk. Both were arrested in February on child sex charges.
Federal officials said the three are charged under a law that went into effect six years ago "and substantially strengthened the federal laws related to predatory crimes involving children outside the United States."
"Abusing vulnerable children anywhere in this world is not acceptable behavior," U.S. Attorney O'Brien said at a press conference in Los Angeles. "Pedophiles are sadly mistaken if they think they can get away with exploiting children in another country in order to satisfy their own perverted desires."
sstanton@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2009
Jack Louis Sporich, a notorious pedophile who authorities say has molested more than 500 children, was in federal custody and facing new charges Monday after being expelled from Cambodia over the weekend.
Sporich was returned to the United States under the auspices of "Operation Twisted Traveler," an international law enforcement effort aimed at pedophiles who travel as "sex tourists."
Thom Mrozek, spokesman for U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien in Los Angeles, said Sporich was escorted to Los Angeles by immigration officials along with two other suspected child molesters from California. He had been in a Cambodian jail since February facing molestation allegations there.
Sporich, 75, is a wealthy former engineer who prosecutors say has been molesting children since the 1960s. He was convicted in Ventura County of seven counts of molestation and spent nine years in prison before being sent to the Atascadero State Hospital as a "sexually violent predator."
Sporich was the focus of a 2006 Bee series on the failings of California's efforts to treat such predators. He refused treatment at the hospital and won release in May 2004 after two juries were unable to agree on whether he might re-offend.
The Ventura County prosecutor who convicted Sporich said Monday that his return to U.S. custody "means boys somewhere won't be molested, whether it's Cambodia or Thailand or Arizona."
"Wherever Jack Sporich was, he was going to molest young boys between the age of 5 and 8, typically," said David Lehr, now a private attorney in Ventura.
Lehr said the juries that allowed Sporich to go free did so because some jurors believed he was too old to re-offend. But Lehr said pedophiles such as Sporich are rarely slowed by age.
"They're going to molest until they are dead, period," Lehr said, "unless they receive significant treatment and are monitored very, very closely for the rest of their lives."
Sporich settled into retirement in an upscale Sedona, Ariz., condo until 2006, when he was visited by Bee reporters and insisted in an interview he was not a threat to anyone.
He later moved to Cambodia, where federal court documents state he spent $1.2 million building a home near the tourist destination of Siem Reap. He also became engaged to a 22-year-old Cambodian woman.
Sporich was arrested Feb. 2 after an aid agency, Action Pour Les Enfants-Cambodia, alleged that he had lured three Cambodian boys, ages 9 to 12, to his home with toys and candy and molested them. Court documents state he also attracted boys by dropping Cambodian currency in the street as he rode along on a motor bike.
Sporich, who would have faced a sentence of one to three years under Cambodian law if convicted, remained in custody there while authorities worked to bring him back to this country. In the new federal complaint, he faces 30 years.
Acording to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Los Angeles in April, Sporich claimed in an interview with authorities that the accusations against him were lies.
Authorities allege in the court documents that Sporich paid the parents of his fiancée $1,000 to $2,000 to become engaged to her and also purchased them a motor bike. Sporich and the woman began adopting boys, the documents state, and he mused about someday turning his home near a golf course into a bed-and-breakfast.
Sporich was returned from Cambodia with two other suspects from California: Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 49, of Menlo Park and Erik Leonardus Peeters, 41, of Norwalk. Both were arrested in February on child sex charges.
Federal officials said the three are charged under a law that went into effect six years ago "and substantially strengthened the federal laws related to predatory crimes involving children outside the United States."
"Abusing vulnerable children anywhere in this world is not acceptable behavior," U.S. Attorney O'Brien said at a press conference in Los Angeles. "Pedophiles are sadly mistaken if they think they can get away with exploiting children in another country in order to satisfy their own perverted desires."
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