Here at WoWasis, we earlier this year reported on alleged scams run by NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Southeast Asia that have resulted in false allegations of pedophilia on the part of innocent Westerners. In August of this year, a Cambodian judge ruled in favor of a man he considered unjustly accused. 

According to the Phnom Penh Post, Presiding judge Plang Samnang found French national Jean Marie Beranger innocent of charges that he molested a teenage boy on the street in the city of Kampot, citing unreliable and conflicting testimony. Unfortunately, Beranger spent several months in a Cambodian prison before he was judged innocent.

False accusations of pedophilia in Asia have plagued western visitors for years, as documented in Steve Raymond’s 1995 book Poison River.