He was convicted after almost four and a half years of trial. He pleaded guilty to lesser charges and got off lightly with time served. He is Mr. AB, an American convicted in an Olongapo Court recently of child trafficking and child sexual abuse. He may yet be tried in the United States on other charges for violating the extraterritorial jurisdiction law. This law targets US nationals suspected of being in any way involved in human trafficking, or the sexual abuse of minors in countries outside of the USA. He ran a sex bar in Subic town, named the Crow Bar, then changed to Avila’s, where minors as young as 14 years old were sexually assaulted. He admitted in a TV interview acts considered crimes against children. See “The Raid” on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xRCk8Ni-cs.
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