Trapping Cambodia's sex tourists

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Trapping Cambodia's sex tourists

By Andrew Harding
BBC News, Phnom Penh


Cambodia is one of the world's poorest countries and notorious for child sex trafficking, making it a big destination for paedophiles and other sex tourists.

Geoff is sitting on a small, hard bed in a Cambodian brothel, his heart thumping fast.

He is 49 years old, a retired Australian diplomat with a wife and two grown-up children.

After a long, tense wait, a grinning teenaged boy opens the door and pushes in two young girls.

One says she is seven years old. The other is nine.

The younger one seems as nervous as Geoff, breathing heavily, as the boy explains exactly what she will do for $60.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4078304.stm

[Taxloss]

1. Sheesh.

Stomach-turning.

[CTLawGuy]

2. kudos to this guy for what he does

goodness knows I couldn't do it. But it is very important to shutting down the child sex trade.

[Tsiyu]

3. One man who cares enough to save children

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"Sometimes the foreign tourists are only arrested when they get back to their own countries and confronted with Geoff's footage

Once he walked in on an elderly European man, raping an eight-year-old girl. "For like two seconds," he says, "I just couldn't move.

"I remember seeing his clothes hanging on a peg. I guess it's lucky we're not allowed to be armed. I could have..." his voice trails off.

Instead, Geoff stuck to his undercover role, and closed the door.

Outside, a few minutes later, he alerted the police, but the man slipped out through a back door. "

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This is an atrocity repeated over and over every day by sick people.