American sentenced after traveling to Cambodia to have sex with minor girls

11 Dec, 2010
Source: islandcrisis

KENT, WASHINGTON (BNO NEW) — A 59-year-old Washington man was sentenced to 15 years to prison for organizing a trip to Cambodia and having sex with underage girls, prosecutors said Friday.

Craig Carr, of Kent, Washington, after his arrest admitted that he traveled to Cambodia in January and had sex with with three underage girls after paying an individual approximately ,000 to set up the encounters during a week-long visit to the Asian country.

According to the facts admitted in his plea agreement, Carr made contact over the Internet with a person in Cambodia who agreed to find minor females for him to have sex with during a visit to Cambodia.

Carr informed the person arranging the sexual encounters that he wanted the girls to be about 12-years-old, sending his Cambodian contact sexually explicit photographs of minors to show the approximate age of the girls he was seeking.

In addition, Carr also asked the source in Cambodia if he could take naked photos of the girls, and, he requested the address of a FedEx store in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, so he could send the photos to his Kent, Washington, home.

On January 13, Carr traveled to Phnom Penh from Seattle. On January 22, he was arrested and admitted that he had sex with three young females over his eight days in Cambodia. His camera contained pictures of three young victims. Two of the victims have been located.

Carr was sentenced on Friday to 180 months in prison, lifetime supervised release, a ,000 fine and ,000 in restitution for sexual exploitation of a child. He has also agreed to pay ,000 in restitution to the Cambodian victims.

At sentencing U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones told Carr “you prey on the most vulnerable of victims… very young girls. What you were doing satisfying your fantasy one night, leads to a lifetime of nightmares for them.”