Updated Wednesday, May 21, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

Cambodian court gives Austrian pedophile 10 years

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- An Austrian man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in jail for sexually abusing two Cambodian boys, a judge said. Olaf Achleitner, 64, was also ordered to pay 4 million riel (US$1,000; euro650) in compensation to each of the boys following his conviction on charges of committing indecent acts against minors, said Ke Sakhan, a Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge.

The judge said the Austrian sexually abused the boys, aged 12 and 15, in two separate incidents in September. The defendant’s Cambodian lawyer, Dun Vibol, called the verdict unjust. He said the verdict was based merely on the boys’ testimonies to the police with the prosecution offering no evidence to back up their claims.

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