PHNOM PENH — A 33-year-old Japanese man has been arrested on suspicion of purchasing sex with underage boys in Cambodia’s northern province of Siem Reap, a provincial court official said Friday. Ty Sovannthal, chief prosecutor at the Siem Reap Provincial Court, said that he charged Nobuyuki Oi on Thursday with paying for sex with the two child prostitutes aged 15 and 16.
He said Oi was arrested late Wednesday in Siem Reap after villagers reported seeing him having sex with the two boys. Ty Sovannthal said Oi admitted to paying the boys $10 each for sex.
If found guilty, Oi faces a jail term of between two and five years for abusing children, according to Cambodia’s Law on Suppression of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation.
Oi, from Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan, entered Cambodia as a tourist on Nov. 5 and was due to stay in the country until Dec. 6.
Last month, a court in the capital Phnom Penh convicted a 41-year-old Japanese man of having sex with an underage girl and sentenced him to seven years in jail and fined him 400,000 riel (about $95).
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