American Baptist Missionary Man Molests Children in Cambodia, Gets a Slap on the Wrist
Those who seek Power and Control put themselves in situations to attain both. The Catholic Church does not have the monopoly on that.
In another case, a convicted French paedophile demanded and got a retrial after being tried in absentia in February for the sexual abuse of two boys inside a guesthouse. He argued that he was absent from the proceedings because he was in prison at the time of the trial having been sentenced to a year’s imprisonment for sexually abusing five boys in Siem Reap in early 2012.
APLE is understandably urging the court to change the charge to securing child prostitution which does seem logical because the under-aged boys are typically remunerated.
Inasmuch as Manning has been operating his church in Seam Reap for the past 10 years, it’s certainly possible that he has victimized more than just the three teenage boys whose molestation led to his present conviction and imprisonment. Arguably, his one-year sentence seems little more than a slap on the wrist and suggests that he may well return to his old ways after his release from prison.
Furthermore, his hypocrisy in claiming that his role in the boys’ lives was to ‘cleanse them of their sins’ is deeply offensive to anyone with even a modicum of common decency.
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