a 59 yrs old man from Burnaby, BC, Canada, The charges stem from acts between December 1998 and March 2002. Mr. Klassen initially faced trial on 35 counts but pleaded guilty in May to 15 counts involving girls in Cambodia and Colombia, as well as the child pornography charge. Klassen, the father of three lived in Colombia for 20 years before returning to Canada. His lawyers argued he didn't travel there for sex, but became complacent to the age of girls in a place that doesn't have the same stringent laws. Mr. Klassen's lawyers had argued the Burnaby man was merely a “customer” of willing participants after he pleaded guilty to 14 offences of sexual interference and one count of importing child pornography
Location
Canada · Burnaby, BC Canada · 2003
(location generalized to protect survivors) Response & intervention
July 28, 2010 Klassen was sentenced to 11 years in prison. |Justice Austin Cullen condemned Kenneth Klassen's repeated sexual activity with prepubescent girls overseas as “opportunistic” and “organized,” as he delivered his sentence Wednesday for Mr. Klassen's violations of Canada's rarely used sex-tourism law." Outside court, Crown lawyer Brendan McCabe said the sentence is the highest ever imposed for charges under the sex-tourism law.
"Mr. Klassen was charged after police discovered 21 DVDs with titles like “Child Abuse” and “First Timer” in a package of bedding he'd mailed to his own address back in Canada. In the videos, he's shown in numerous sex acts with girls under 14. The judge noted the crimes may never have surfaced if not for the customs officers' discovery in Mr. Klassen's mail. A Colombian woman had been paid to blur out Mr. Klassen's face and design the covers.
all information from THe Globe and Mail http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/sex-tourist-kenneth-klassen-sentenced-to-11-years/article1654820/
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