Associated Press
A Cambodian judge says he has sent a Frenchman to jail for a year for soliciting sex from a 16-year-old girl.
Judge Chhay Kong says he sentenced 61-year-old Jacques Collinet to three years in jail Tuesday, but that two of those years are suspended.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge says he also ordered Collinet to pay 2 million riels ($482) compensation to the girl's family.
Police arrested Collinet in April at a Phnom Penh guesthouse after the girl told police he had raped her. Collinet said he only received a massage from her.
Cambodia has long been a magnet for sex tourists because of poverty and corruption in law enforcement. The police and courts have stepped up action against sex offenders in recent years.
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