via CAAI News Media
PHNOM PENH, Feb 25 (AFP) - A Cambodian court on Thursday ordered a 63-year-old Frenchman to serve seven months in prison for soliciting sex with a child prostitute.
Michel Jean Raymond Charlot was arrested in August last year after police raided his guesthouse room and found him having sex with the 16-year-old girl in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court convicted Charlot and sentenced him to three years' imprisonment, but ordered him to spend only seven months in prison from the date of his arrest with the rest of the sentence suspended.
The sentence was shortened due to his age and because he had admitted to having sex with the girl, whom he said he thought was aged 18 at the time, the court said.
The court also ordered Charlot to pay 250 dollars to the girl and to be deported after he completes his prison term next month.
The girl told the court that she had been working as a prostitute since she was 14.
Dozens of foreigners have been jailed for child sex crimes or deported to face trial in their home countries since Cambodia launched an anti-paedophilia push in 2003, to try to shake off its reputation as a haven for sex predators.
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