Inspiring Child Protection Action through Building Knowledge and Skill of the Frontline

Phnom Penh – This week, APLE will conduct two trainings for informants and university students in Phnom Penh and Sihanouk province. The trainings will focus on “Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation, Grooming Technique, and How to Report the Incidents to Relevant Authorities.” Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) is a child protection non-governmental organization operating in […]

APLE’s Achievement Highlight for July 2015

Phnom Penh – Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE) is a child’s rights non-governmental organization operating in Cambodia since 2003 that works to reduce all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation through prevention, protection and promotion of prosecution. Partnering closely with the Cambodian National Police, APLE assists in the rescue of victims of child sexual exploitation. […]

Sunday Mirror: Runaway paedophile teacher deported back to Britain after abusing three young brothers in Cambodia

Richard Fruin, 38, was flown to Kuala Lumpar and then transferred onto a Malaysian Airline’s flight to London paid for by the taxpayer after detectives travelled to Cambodia to quiz him. A convicted paedophile who sexually abused three young brothers in Cambodia has been deported back to Britain and gone straight to jail. Richard Fruin, […]

INSEASIA: British Paedophile deported from Cambodia

Aug 4, 2015 by ngaphamvietnam: Robert Fruin, 38, former English teacher in Cambodia has been deported after serving 2 years in Cambodia. The Cambodian authorities deported Fruin after serving 2 years and had asked he completes the rest of his sentence in Cambodia. Robert Fruin was a former teacher at the Universal English school in […]

THE CD: Pedophile Molodyakov Guilty in Russia

Russian serial pedophile Stanislav Molodyakov—who preyed on Cambodian street children for years before he was deported to his home country in 2012—has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for raping dozens of schoolgirls, according to Russian media. More details: https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/notorious-pedophile-molodyakov-guilty-in-russia-90577/

Release of Child Sex Offender Causes Deep Frustration

Phnom Penh – Philippe Broaly, a convicted child sex offender and NGO director, left Cambodia for France immediately after he had been released on 2 July 2015 despite an ongoing appeal in which several points in his case were under review. The release of Broaly has caused deep frustration among child protection NGOs in Cambodia […]

Khmer Times: NGOs Want Child Molesters Deported

Sunday, 12 July 2015; News by Khmer Times/Igor Kossov and Srey Kumneth PHNOM PENH (Khmer Times) – Convicted child molesters can put victims’ families in danger if they are not served with harsher sentences and mandatory deportation, say child protection groups. Seventeen NGOs have blasted the release of Philippe Broaly, the former French judge and […]

Loophole Thwarts Efforts to Combat Child Sex

By Matt Blomberg and Sek Odom | July 1, 2015 When an anti-human trafficking group recently reported a 73 percent drop in the sale of children for sex, another referenced its list of 15 establishments offering minors to predators as evidence to the contrary. That was three weeks ago. And according to the latter group, […]

APLE Applauds the Appeal Court’s Verdict for Child Rapist

Phnom Penh – Yesterday, Ros Chea, a child rapist who was arrested in 2012 after raping a 10-year old girl, heard the Appeal Court uphold the earlier sentence of the Municipal Court. Ros Chea had been sentenced to ten years imprisonment and was ordered to pay 12 million riel compensation to a civil plaintiff. Ros […]

Woman Arrested for Pimping Teenage Girls to Foreigners, Locals

By Aun Pheap and Chris Mueller | June 24, 2015 A woman was arrested in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district on Monday for allegedly pimping out at least seven underage girls to Cambodian and foreign men, police and an NGO said Tuesday. Police from the municipal anti-human trafficking bureau apprehended Sok Him, 37, as she […]