Richard Fruin, 36, formerly from Gloucestershire, left the UK after serving a year-long sentence for producing images of child sex abuse.
He was arrested in October last year after his guesthouse room in Phnom Penh was raided, and he was found with a partially-dressed 8-year-old boy.
The boy's brothers, aged 10 and 11, testified that they were also abused.
Fruin was ordered to pay 10 million riels (£1,500) compensation to the victims and fine of four million riels (£600).
After serving his sentence he will be deported from Cambodia.
Yi Moden, from the children's rights organisation Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), said he was "satisfied" with the deportation order, compensation and fine.
"I feel, however, that Richard Fruin deserves a longer imprisonment," he said.
"With this sentencing, we can be sure that this man will not hurt any child in Cambodia any more."
This is good for Cambodia, but the short prison sentence just means that he will be abusing children in some other country. This NIMBY - Not In My Backyard policy is not helpful in protecting the world's children. There needs to be a movement to end the practice of NIMBY in sex abuse cases.
Fruin was convicted at Gloucester Crown Court in October 2012 of 15 counts of possessing indecent images of children.
Here's a thought - does the order for Fruin to pay the boy's family 1500 pounds amount to the court getting involved in prostitution? Most child sex abuse victims in developing countries come from very poor families and are financially rewarded by the pedophile for their services.
I am wondering if, when other poor families hear about this ruling, the parents will set their children up to be sexually abused and then call in the police while the abuse occurs? 1500 pounds is a lot of money for many Cambodian families, a life-changing amount of money.
There are two likely outcomes from this: 1. Parents will pimp their own children even more than already occurs; 2. Pedophiles will eventually learn what is going on and avoid Cambodia reducing the number of children being abused there. That would be a good thing except the pedophiles will just find another poor country with lots of potential victims.
He was arrested in October last year after his guesthouse room in Phnom Penh was raided, and he was found with a partially-dressed 8-year-old boy.
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The boy's brothers, aged 10 and 11, testified that they were also abused.
Fruin was ordered to pay 10 million riels (£1,500) compensation to the victims and fine of four million riels (£600).
After serving his sentence he will be deported from Cambodia.
Yi Moden, from the children's rights organisation Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), said he was "satisfied" with the deportation order, compensation and fine.
"I feel, however, that Richard Fruin deserves a longer imprisonment," he said.
"With this sentencing, we can be sure that this man will not hurt any child in Cambodia any more."
This is good for Cambodia, but the short prison sentence just means that he will be abusing children in some other country. This NIMBY - Not In My Backyard policy is not helpful in protecting the world's children. There needs to be a movement to end the practice of NIMBY in sex abuse cases.
Fruin was convicted at Gloucester Crown Court in October 2012 of 15 counts of possessing indecent images of children.
Here's a thought - does the order for Fruin to pay the boy's family 1500 pounds amount to the court getting involved in prostitution? Most child sex abuse victims in developing countries come from very poor families and are financially rewarded by the pedophile for their services.
I am wondering if, when other poor families hear about this ruling, the parents will set their children up to be sexually abused and then call in the police while the abuse occurs? 1500 pounds is a lot of money for many Cambodian families, a life-changing amount of money.
There are two likely outcomes from this: 1. Parents will pimp their own children even more than already occurs; 2. Pedophiles will eventually learn what is going on and avoid Cambodia reducing the number of children being abused there. That would be a good thing except the pedophiles will just find another poor country with lots of potential victims.
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