Tag: APLE Cambodia

Capacity Building For Partners Really Needed

In 2016, Training of Trainers (ToT) approach is the main focus of APLE Cambodia in order to strengthen the real capacity of teachers, NGO partners and other stakeholders to better protect children. In August 2016, the training team of APLE was invited to provide a one-day training course on offline and online child sexual abuse […]

Child Group Activity Could Help Children Tackle Their Stresses

Some people might think only adults have stress. In fact, everyone experiences stress, including children. The differences are only the level of stress, how to behave, and how to release stress. To help children understand all of these, on 06 September 2016 our staff arranged a child group activity with 11 child victims of sexual […]

Deportation Increases After APLE’s Tough Advocacy

Deportation order by the judges is crucial for victims and their family members as it makes them feel more secure after the completion of the imprisonment term of the convicted. To respond to this issue, APLE’s lawyers have raised up many points to the judges during the hearing and advocated with prosecutor and general prosecutor […]

With the paedophile-hunters on the streets of Phnom Penh

For 13 years, an NGO’s investigators have tracked Western, and Chinese, men who sexually exploit Cambodian children, turning dossiers over to authorities. Now it aims to step back and help police gather evidence against suspects. IT’S MID-AFTERNOON on a Saturday and the streets of Phnom Penh resemble a failed experiment in automotive anarchy as we […]

Korean Pastor Held Over Child Prostitution

A South Korean missionary was arrested and charged yesterday by the Siem Reap Provincial Court for allegedly having sex with eight poor Cambodian girls who lived at his church in Siem Reap City, according to provincial police.  He was identified as 62-year-old Chung Park, the head of a Christian church in Chung Kaosu village in […]

Siem Reap Pastor Arrested Over Multiple Sex Abuse Claims

Police in Siem Reap City have arrested a South Korean pastor accused of sexually abusing eight girls on multiple occasions over the past several years and buying them and their families off with gifts of rice, cash and motorbikes. Park Youl, 62, was arrested on Wednesday morning after being called in for questioning based on […]

Pastor in Siem Reap arrested over child sex abuse

A South Korean national who was the pastor of two churches in Siem Reap town was arrested yesterday after police received a tip-off that he had allegedly been sexually abusing children for “many years”, authorities said. According to Duong Thavery, provincial chief of anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection police, suspect Park Youl had been living […]

APLE’s Received Tip-off Leads To An Arrest Of A Korean National

Siem Reap – On 20 October 2016, a total of nine victims are rescued from sexual abuse be exploitation after one of them came forward to disclose abuse to Siem Reap Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Unit via APLE social work team. The disclosure of all victims confirmed that they had been sexually abused by […]

Appeal Court’s Decision Upholds the Verdict Against a Canadian

Phnom Penh – On 5 October 2016, the Appeal Court pronounced a verdict against a 72-year-old Canadian national, Pierre Deslauriers, by upholding the Siem Reap Provincial Court’s decision in which he was sentenced to 7 years in jail, ordered to pay 10 million Riel to four civil plaintiffs, ordered his deportation and banned from entering […]

Expert Roundtable Meeting On “Tackling Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Towards a Safer Internet Environment,” Phnom Penh, 14 September 2016

Phnom Penh – On 14 September 2016, APLE Cambodia in collaboration with INHOPE Foundation organized an Expert Roundtable Meeting on Tackling Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse Towards a Safer Internet Environment, bringing together 60 national and international participants. Our main objectives were to better understand the problem of online child sexual exploitation and abuse […]