via CAAI
September 22, 2010
A 53-YEAR-old Australian man has gone on trial in Cambodia for allegedly sexually abusing young girls.
Judge Duch Kimsan of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court said Michael John Lines from Queensland was tried on charges of procuring a child for prostitution.
The closed door trial was adjourned after a day. The judge said he would give a verdict in the near future, but did not specify when.
Mr Lines also holds New Zealand nationality.
He was arrested in March at a hotel in the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk. Police accused him of having sex with two underage girls.
Cambodia has long been a magnet for foreign pedophiles because of poverty and poor law enforcement, but in recent years police and courts have increasingly targeted sex offenders.
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