Vietnam charges Glitter with molestation"It's okay, I was only teaching them English!"
- From: "Lady Libra" <ladylibra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:58:01 GMT
HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnamese police have pressed child molestation charge
against British rocker Gary Glitter who faces up to 12 years in a Vietnamese
jail if convicted, officials said on Saturday.
"The formal charge is engaging in perverse activities with children," an
official from Ba Ria Vung Tau province told Reuters.
The official, who declined to be identified, said Glitter would be detained
for up to three more months before a trial by the provincial court of Ba Ria
Vung Tau.
Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, has denied allegations that
he molested girls as young as 12 and insisted he was just helping them with
their English.
The age of consent in Vietnam is 16 and sex with minors is punishable by up
to 12 years in jail.
Officials have said they were considering allowing the rocker bail due to
the harsh conditions in the detention center, where inmates sleep on the
floor.
Glitter's Vietnamese lawyer, Le Thanh Kinh, told Reuters the bail amount had
not been decided yet.
Authorities have not given details of their investigation, but state-owned
newspapers said this week police had identified 10 girls who admitted to
having had sex with Glitter. One of the girls was 12 years old.
Glitter was sentenced to four months in jail in Britain in 1999 after being
found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on his
computer.
After his release he left Britain for Cuba and then later turned up in Phnom
Penh.
Child rights activists hounded him out of Cambodia twice and had his name
put on an entry blacklist, although Glitter filed lawsuits last year
fighting the deportation orders.
Vietnamese newspapers have reported Glitter had been in Vietnam for about a
year.
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