The first person prosecuted under a law protecting children overseas from sex crimes
by US citizens has pleaded guilty to having sexual contact with boys in Cambodia,
the US Attorney's office said. Michael Lewis Clark was arrested last June in Cambodia
and was indicted last September in Seattle. He pleaded guilty last week to two federal
charges of engaging in and attempting to engage in illicit sexual conductin foreign
places.
Cambodian police arrested Clark in Phnom Penh, accusing him of "debauchery involving
illicit sexual conduct" with two boys aged about 10 and 13, US Immigration and
Customs Enforcement said. The complaint said Clark acknowledged he has been a pedophile
since 1996 and that he usually paid the Cambodian boys $2 each for sex. He faces
a potential maximum sentence of 30 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
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