Jury finds Christian missionary from Oregon guilty of abusing Cambodian orphans

PORTLAND, Ore. — A U.S. jury found a Christian missionary from Oregon guilty Wednesday of multiple sex abuse charges for molesting children living at an unlicensed Cambodian orphanage that he operated in Phnom Penh over a period of years.

Daniel Stephen Johnson, 40, was convicted of six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count each of travel with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and aggravated sexual assault with children. He faces a minimum of 30 years in prison when sentenced in August in Eugene, Oregon.

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'Poverty porn' and 'pity charity' the dark underbelly of a Cambodia orphanage

Many Australians responded to a plea to save the pretty Cambodian girl called Pisey from child predators. "Teach a sex worker to sew," declares a glossy internet advertisement for Sunrise Cambodia, an Australian charity that has raised millions of dollars each year for Cambodia's orphanages.

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Cambodian children removed from orphanages amid abuse allegations

Almost 200 Cambodian children were removed from orphanages in 2015 that either failed to live up to institutional standards or were found to employ staff who sexually abused children in their care, the Phnom Penh Post reported Friday.

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Police Close Orphanage Over Child Sex Claims

Police Close Orphanage Over Child Sex Claims

Police shut down the Our Home orphanage and school in Phnom Penh on Thursday, two days after child sex abuse allegations led to the arrest of its director—a former head of the anti-pedophile NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), which carried out the investigation.

Can Cambodia's orphanage system be reformed?

Can Cambodia's orphanage system be reformed?

Three years ago, Cambodia's minister of social Affairs announced 70 privately run orphanages would be closed, effective immediately. An investigation, he said, had found these centres did not provide basic care and security for children living there. They had to shut down.

Cambodia: child protection workers call for end to ‘orphanage tourism’

Cambodia: child protection workers call for end to ‘orphanage tourism’

Child protection and NGO workers are pleading with tourists and volunteers to stay away from orphanages in Cambodia, claiming so-called “orphanage tourism” damages the children and enables exploitation.

Orphanages on list of shame

Orphanages on list of shame

Dozens of orphanages in Cambodia, including some run by Australians, have been accused of abuse, neglect or exploiting children to attract donations.

Cambodia shuts orphanage after reported abuse

Cambodia shuts orphanage after reported abuse

Cambodian authorities said Monday they had shut a foreign-run orphanage that is suspected of beating its children and carrying out human trafficking.

Cambodia’s ‘orphan tourism’ sparks concern

Cambodia’s ‘orphan tourism’ sparks concern

Pictures of hundreds of former volunteers line the walls of a muddy courtyard in Cambodia’s tourist hub of Siem Reap, their faces once familiar to the orphans playing there but now long gone.

Orphanage man jailed

Orphanage man jailed

A PAEDOPHILE in charge of an orphanage has been jailed in Cambodia for abusing the children he was looking after.