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The United Nations estimates
that 2 million children globally...
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...are forced into prostitution
and pornography each year.
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The sexual exploitation of children
is fueled by depraved sex predators,
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criminals who prey
on the most vulnerable of victims,
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putting a price tag on their innocence.
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In places where money is scarce,
these deviants gather,
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forging a network of criminals who profit
from the demand and supply of children.
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They are among Asia’s
most repulsive criminals.
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September 5th, 2010,
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police raid a guesthouse
on the outskirts of Phnom Penh...
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...to find three underage
Cambodian girls...
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...with a 50-year-old British national,
a former UK government adviser.
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Present at the scene was head
of the Anti Human Trafficking Police...
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...and agents from APLE,
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a local organization that investigates
and brings pedophiles to justice.
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When we went into the guesthouse,
he was with three very young girls,
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aged 9, 10, and 11,
sitting on his bed, ready for sex.
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Having escaped the clutches
of Cambodian laws before,
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Leach is fearless
of authorities during the arrest.
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He did not look frightened,
he did not look scared at all because...
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...what I can say, he was experienced.
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And because he believed that he would
come into this situation one day.
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Leach had been under APLE
investigation before, in 2005,
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when he allegedly
sexually abused young girls...
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...while posing
as a doctor at an orphanage.
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He was acquitted by the courts
due to lack of evidence.
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This time around,
investigators are determined...
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...to gather enough evidence
to convict him of his crimes.
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Their immediate source
of evidence is the girls.
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In many cases the victim
was actually not cooperative,
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because they wanted to secure a financial
relationship with their own abuser.
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Leach paid 1500 US dollars
for a sex contract...
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...with three underage girls
for a period of one week.
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Before catching him red handed,
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APLE agents conduct
a thorough surveillance on Leach,
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following Intel on a child
prostitution ring two days prior.
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Agents witness Leach being driven
around town by a local driver.
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The suspect purchased
candies and lingerie...
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...before going to Kien Svay district,
a place known for its sex establishments.
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Leach eventually leads the undercover
agents to this guesthouse...
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...just outside Phnom Penh
where the raid and arrest take place.
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He made a deal with two pimps...
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...and the mother of three girls,
aged under 15, okay?
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So the mother agreed
to sell her own three girls...
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...to the pimp, who then transferred
the three girls to this man...
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...for one big sexual abuse contract.
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Leach’s accomplices were also arrested,
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including his driver, the owner
of the guesthouse, and the girls’ mother.
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Leach was charged with three counts
of purchasing sex with underage girls.
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According to prosecutors,
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Leach tried several times
to delay his trial,
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often faking illness on his court dates.
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But, on the 8th of September 2011,
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Michael Julian Leach was finally
convicted to 12 years' imprisonment...
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...and forced to pay
compensation money to his victims.
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The sexual exploitation of children
occurs around the world,
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a crime that crosses all borders
and afflicts all societies.
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Cambodia, among the world’s
poorest countries,
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is a breeding ground
for the child sex trade.
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The country’s
Minister of Women’s Affairs...
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...estimated that around
30,000 Cambodian children...
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...were forced into prostitution in 2005.
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It is one of the global hotspots
selling commercial sex with the young...
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...and attracting pedophiles
from all over the world.
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Some travelers
from the Western countries,
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actually coming here with purposes
of engaging sexually with children.
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So...
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...they actually operate in a way...
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...that they believe they can find
children on the streets.
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They believe that they can
buy a child for sex.
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According to Agent Seila,
there are two ways a pedophile will hunt.
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Some make direct contact
with children or families on the streets,
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while others use the help
of a local establishment or middlemen.
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These underground dealers
hide under layers of secrecy...
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...that make them extremely
difficult to bring to justice.
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The relentless sex trade
has made Cambodia...
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...an increasingly dangerous
place for the young.
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As predators of children
sink further into depravity,
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even a shelter for abandoned street kids
can be turned into a child’s nightmare.
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So now we have cases of people...
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...who probably run an NGO or work
in an NGO to get access to children.
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April 21st, 2010,
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police and child protection agents
search the home of 66-year-old...
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...Cornelius Chamuleau
in Sihanoukville, Cambodia.
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The Dutchman is the director
of a local orphanage in the coastal town.
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I object. There’s nothing with children.
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Authorities raid his apartment...
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...after three boys from the home
complained of sexual abuse.
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When he was out with these
four to seven kids outside,
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he was playing in a very
inappropriate way by touching,
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by hugging, by kissing,
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by actually playing
around their genital parts.
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The Dutchman was convicted
in February 2011...
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...for indecent acts
against two underage boys.
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Under Cambodian law,
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indecency against minors
that excludes sexual intercourse...
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...carries a maximum
sentence of three years.
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Chamuleau was sentenced to 18 months
in prison and served only half of it.
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Agent Seila and his team
have requested for prosecutors...
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...to oppose the court’s light sentence.
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Their disappointment
stems from the possibility...
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...that Chamuleau may strike again
after his early release.
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APLE is just one of many
child protection agencies...
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...putting pressure
on the prosecution of pedophiles.
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Sex predators who are aware
of such scrutiny...
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...have developed a new mode
of operation to escape detection.
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They believe that they have
to change their ways.
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So now pedophiles work fund raising...
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...for NGOs for him
to get access to children.
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Such an operation means
that pedophiles get to establish...
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...long-term relationships
with their victims,
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manipulating children to unknowingly
submit to sexual abuse.
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Running an orphanage
to get access to children...
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...shows how increasingly brazen
foreign pedophiles have become.
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And when the profile of the typical
Western pedophile is rich,
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advanced in his years, and retired,
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they often think they are above the law.
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In one of the pedophile cases
specifically of the Dutch national,
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we were actually offered
100,000 US dollars...
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...to withdraw from the legal case.
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And there, he also tried to locate
our office in order to make a deal.
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We did not accept the deal.
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But in a poverty-stricken
country like Cambodia,
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cash is often the ultimate temptation...
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...even if it means selling your own kids.
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These shadowy businessmen
also lurk in brothels,
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using children to lure customers.
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Authorities say families
in rural areas of Cambodia...
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...are often tricked
into giving away their children...
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...for what they think
are decent paying jobs,
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only to have the their young ones
end up working in brothels.
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24-year-old Chaivoeurn was born
into a poor family plagued by debt.
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At only 13 years old,
she was sold off by her aunt.
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Instead of washing dishes
and earning an honest income,
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Chaivoeurn was tortured
into sexual slavery.
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She was forced
to serve clients every day...
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...and was brutally punished
if she refused.
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With no way out,
her nightmare only got worse.
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Sadly, her story is not unique.
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Thousands of children are victimized
by the same deceit every year.
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20-year-old Srey Pich was forced
into prostitution at a young age,
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after running away from home
to escape her sexually abusive father.
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While living on the streets,
she met a lady who offered help.
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But instead of being sent
to a safer place,
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Srey was sold to a brothel.
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The manager beat me, electrocuted me.
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Local men believe that sleeping
with underaged virgins...
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...will bring them increased vitality
and untold health benefits.
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Profiting from this myth
are underground syndicates...
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...that sell children to rich,
primarily Asian men.
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The price tag for a virgin
can go up to 1000 US dollars.
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When caught, the disgrace faced
by the criminal can be overwhelming.
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And fearing a lifelong campaign
of hatred against them...
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...many choose an easier way out.
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Convicted pedophiles are often
punished with public humiliation.
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These criminals not only incur the wrath
of their victims and the general public...
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...but also fellow prison inmates.
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Even the hardest criminals
are known to be intolerant...
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...of crimes against children.
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Behind bars,
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pedophiles are thrown into the
lowest rungs of the prison hierarchy,
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facing intense harassment
from other inmates,
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and in some cases,
becoming the target for violent murders.
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It is no wonder that when
caught red handed by police,
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many pedophiles
are desperate for any way out.
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In early August 2006,
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children’s screams echo from a house
in a Phnom Penh neighbourhood,
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raising suspicions.
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The home belongs to 60-year-old
German schoolteacher...
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...Karl-Heinz Henning Opitz.
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Word of neighbors’
complaints soon reach APLE,
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an independent organization
of law enforcement agents...
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...combating child sex crimes.
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Our agent went to the scene and tried
to identify the girl in the home.
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So we went upstairs and we tried
to observe from a distance of his home,
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and we could see
some kind of camera flash,
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we could see voices of young children
laughing, screaming, something like that.
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Undercover surveillance
reveals underage girls...
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...being escorted to his house
by Vietnamese adults.
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The children suspiciously
spend three to four hours...
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...inside the house during each visit.
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Agents follow the escorts
to their home addresses.
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After questioning neighbours,
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they discover that the suspects
are part of a child trafficking ring.
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It was time for the police to step in.
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His 20 years of experience
in the police force...
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...was not enough to prepare
Lieutenant Colonel Keo Thea...
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...for what he and his team
uncovered during the raid.
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While authorities search the premises,
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house-owner German pedophile
Opitz looks on nervously.
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Sadomasochistic sex items are found
along with children’s soft toys.
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Police also discover 18 videotapes
and eight computer hard drives,
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filled with photos and videos
of Opitz and an accomplice...
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...raping and torturing
young local children.
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In some cases, the children
appear bound and drugged.
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Opitz knows the evidence
is unequivocal, more than enough...
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...to convict him of explicit and illegal
sexual conduct with children.
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He also knows the likely consequences.
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From here on, Opitz will have
to face the immense shame...
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...and public hatred for his misdeeds.
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In this rare video
captured of his arrest,
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authorities gather his possessions
while Opitz contemplates his situation.
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With no way out, he decides to make
a run for it, jumping off the balcony.
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Opitz is not the only arrested pedophile
who has tried to take his own life.
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In October 2006,
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50-year-old American police officer
Donald René Ramiréz...
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...committed suicide
while in police custody in Cambodia.
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Ramiréz had been arrested
and thrown in a local jail cell...
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...for having sex
with a 14-year-old girl.
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Once more, the repercussions
of facing the outside world...
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...were too much for him to handle.
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But whatever the outcome
of convicted pedophiles,
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their victims are psychologically
scarred for life.
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Child sex victim Srey,
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who spent her childhood
forced into prostitution,
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can still recall the trauma.
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Often victims of those kinds
of sexual abuses...
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...experience nightmares and flashbacks
and those common effects of trauma...
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...that are often associated
with post-traumatic stress disorder.
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That can often lead
to lots of issues around...
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...feeling a sense of safety
in the community, as they grow older,
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a lack of trust for adults, particularly
for child sex trafficking survivors,
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who were perhaps sold
into that situation by their families.
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After escaping her ordeal,
Srey was sent to a shelter...
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...where she lives with other victims
who share similar histories.
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The Somaly Mam Foundation...
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...helps these girls to reintegrate
back into society...
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...after their traumatic past.
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A crucial part of the healing process
for victims of sexual abuse...
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...is to know that the perpetrators
have been arrested and convicted.
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Opitz was sentenced
to 28 years in a Cambodian prison...
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...on charges of human trafficking
and child pornography.
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The conviction means another
successful mission for APLE.
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Over the course of eight years,
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they have helped bring to justice
over 150 sex offenders in Cambodia.
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After local and international pressure,
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the law of suppression of human
trafficking and sexual exploitation...
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...came to fruition in 2008.
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This new law gives police more power
to investigate and arrest sex offenders...
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...and has put in place
more juvenile protection police units.
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Backed by new legislation,
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authorities have also
intensified their clampdown...
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...on child sex offenders in the country.
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Hundreds have been arrested,
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but only time will tell
if such improved measures are enough...
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...to deter future child sex bandits.
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