Teen Charged With Raping Girls at State Orphanage

A 16-year-old boy was charged on Sunday for raping three girls on multiple occasions at a state-run orphanage in Pailin province, officials said. The teenager was arrested on Friday after police received a complaint from the provincial social affairs department, which was tipped off by staff at the orphanage, said Chhorm Vanthy, chief of the […]

Samleang Seila: More Child Sexual Abuse Offenders Arrested and Prosecuted

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Profile: Cambodia’s private paedophile hunters

SIEM REAP – Using tip-offs, stakeouts and stealth, civilian investigators are playing a crucial role in helping Cambodian police track down foreign paedophiles, as they battle to spread the message that the impoverished nation will no longer be a playground for abusers. Down a dark side-street off Siem Reap's boisterous red light district, a Cambodian […]

APLE Cambodia Joins ECPAT International’s Report Launch

Mr. Seila Samleang, APLE Executive Director [right end], attended ECPAT International's Report Launch on "Offenders On the Move – Global Study on Sexual Exploitation of Children in Tourism and Tourism 2016," Bangkok, 12 May 2016. APLE Cambodia is one of ECPAT's 67 partners worldwide. For more information and access to the full study, visit the […]

Lenient Sentence Causes Fear and Frustration for the Victims and the Families

Phnom Penh, Today, 11 March 2016, a 57-year-old German national, Udo Sabiniewicz, was sentenced to a one-year imprisonment for sexually abusing five boys aged 7 and 9 years old. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court also ordered him to pay USD 1,000 compensation to each of the two plaintiffs. Udo Sabiniewicz was ar­rested in June 2015 […]

California Man Convicted for Sex Crimes in Cambodia

Seven years after Ronald Boyajian was arrested in Phnom Penh’s notorious Svay Pak commune on suspicion of paying for sex with young girls, a jury in Los Angeles on Monday found him guilty as charged. Mr. Boyajian, 55, was returned to the U.S. in August 2009, seven months after his arrest as part of “Operation […]

US man found guilty of child abuse in Kingdom

A US federal court has found American Ronald Boyajian guilty of sexually assaulting minors in Cambodia, according to local media reports. Boyajian, convicted on Monday by a US district court in California, was one of three Americans extradited from the Kingdom in 2009 as part of the US government’s “Operation Twisted Traveler”, which targeted US […]

Man convicted in Cambodian sex tourism case

A onetime Southern California resident was found guilty Monday of traveling repeatedly to Cambodia to sexually assault impoverished children, four of whom testified to grueling sexual attacks that had jurors blinking back tears. Delays kept the case against Ronald “John” Gerard Boyajian at a stalemate for seven years prior to the start of the month-long […]

APLE Cambodia Wins Appreciation Trophy

Samdech Kralahorm Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, Presented the Appreciation Trophy to Mr. Seila Samleang, Executive Director of APLE Cambodia, for the organization's long-standing support of the work of the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT), Phnom Penh, 25 February 2016.