By From staff reports
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A man convicted in Ventura County in 1988 on multiple molestation charges was one of three people indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on allegations that they traveled to Cambodia to have sex with children, authorities said.
They were the first three defendants charged under an international law enforcement initiative targeting Americans who travel to the Southeast Asian nation to sexually exploit children, authorities said.
The three are Jack Louis Sporich, 75, formerly of Santa Monica and now a resident of Sedona, Ariz., whose 1988 case was followed by a state prison sentence; Ronald Gerard Boyajian, 49, of Menlo Park; and Erik Leonardus Peeters, 41, of Norwalk, according to authorities.
The men are accused of international travel and engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for each count. The defendants were arrested in Cambodia and brought to the United States two weeks ago. They are scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 21.
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