Yi Moden, Deputy Director of Field Operations at APLE said:“APLE started paying attention on M.G.J. after a tip-off by an informant early in 2013 when he was suspiciously interacting with small girls. Then, he left the country. In June this year, he returned and was actively associating with underage girls in Phnom Penh. According to police, M.G.J. had abused the girls on different occasions.
“We’re delighted to see the arrest and complement police’s swift action to stop him from further abusing. This man is dangerous for children. APLE continues to help police identify more victims in the places and countries he passed by.”
The arrest actually took place in June but details of the offender were not released until today.
The SUN report:
Sickening!
Brit paedo suspect Michael Jones is caught with kids in Cambodia
SUSPECTED British paedophile Michael Jones is caught on film walking hand-in-hand with an 11-year-old girl in Cambodia.
Other pictures show Jones, 55, with a small child sitting on his lap and chatting to half-dressed girls aged eight and nine.
The photos, taken by a child protection charity, led to Jones’s arrest for a string of alleged sex attacks on street girls in Cambodia’s capital Phnom Penh.
The two topless girls have now made allegations to police about being molested in a secluded spot close to where they were photographed.
Jones, from South Wales, is accused of luring the girls into his clutches using fizzy drink and tubs of sweets.
The 11-year-old claims she was taken to a rented room by a man on three occasions where he paid her £3 for sex.
She said her attacker bought her food and drink, took her to the cinema and paid for her to play video games.
Jones was arrested by a Cambodian police protection unit days after the photos were taken. He has appeared before a court charged with carrying out indecent acts against minors and paying for child prostitution. He faces up to eight years in jail if found guilty.
Jones is being held in Phnom Penh’s Prey Sar jail, living on a basic ration of rice and vegetable soup and sharing a cell with up to 20 others. He was arrested after an investigation by the charity APLE (Action Pour Les Enfants).
Deputy director Khoem Vando said: “The two girls said they had been sexually touched.
“Police interviewed a third girl who said that a man had sexually abused her a number of times.”
APLE targeted Jones after reports he was seen behaving suspiciously with two under-age girls along a river bank.
Police in Britain can find no record of Jones offending here.
Harland was arrested in May 2010, in a joint operation by APLE and the Phnom Penh Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit, after two girls aged 11 and 12 years told APLE and police that Harland had paid them to have sex with him on multiple occasions. He’s been in prison ever since.
At the hearing, which took place two weeks ago, Harland claimed innocence and requested the court to drop his charges.
Seila Samleang, Country Director of APLE, stated:
“The Supreme Court’s decision brought not only justice to the victims, but also closure to the case. We applaud the highest court’s judgment; however, since no deportation order was given in this case, the offender can return to the streets of Cambodia after completion of the sentence and make more victims. This is grave. This is grave. APLE is again calling for mandatory deportation to be given in all foreigner-perpetrated child sexual abuse cases ”
Harland's case was the subject of a story on this site. His prosecution was unusual.
BRITISH EMBASSY PAYS FOR ROUGH JUSTICE
COMMENT: I am not referring to this case but there is something disquieting going on in the region in relation to child sex offenders. At the moment I am dealing with a case of an American citizen working as a professional in a large international company, subcontracting to the Thai government who was arrested two months ago for alleged child abuse against two young Cambodians in Pattaya. The police will not even give a specific month (Nov 2013 to June 2014) when these alleged incidents took place. But they took place at a house which he leased and was used as a private business he owned, a fruit cocktail machine sales outlet, by which was operated by a friend. The two Cambodian boys from a children's home have been used in a number of prosecutions against foreigners. The American says he never stays at this house and only visits the business. When he travels to Pattaya he stays with his girlfriend and their young son. He lives in Bangkok. Coincidentally an American paedophile did rent an upstairs room and was arrested by Thai police and escorted back to Hawaii by US Marshals last December. Both men had beards.