Michael John Koklich, Bay area man sentenced in sex tourism case
April 12th, 2007From the The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO- A federal judge sentenced a man to more than five years in prison after he admitted paying for sex with underage girls in Cambodia.
Michael John Koklich, 49, was arrested by local police in Phnom Penh on Feb. 17, 2006 after a non-governmental organization, Action Pour Les Enfants, reported that Koklich had been spotted with several young Cambodian girls.
He was deported a month later and is the latest in a series of Americans arrested in Cambodia on suspicion of sexually abusing children to be sent back to the United States under the Protect Act, which allows the U.S. to handle Americans accused of abusing children in foreign countries.
Koklich pleaded guilty Tuesday to traveling to Cambodia to have sex with children.
U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker also ordered Koklich to pay restitution to two minor female victims totaling $10,000.
Koklich spent as many as nine months a year living in Cambodia. The rest of the time he spent living a recreational vehicle in the Bay Area.
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