Thierry Darnaudet
Action pour les Enfants (APLE
Cambodia),
22nd. October 2014
Dear Thierry
Whilst it is only six days since I
wrote to Ana G. Pinheiro, APLE’s Legal Coordinator, I will be very surprised if
she replies to my letter. Transparency and accountability do not seem to be
high on Ana’s list of priorities. I would be delighted to be surprised however!
In the meantime please allow me to
take this opportunity to invite you to make yourself available to be
interviewed for my documentary which deals, in part, with the arrest and
jailing of David Fletcher – a legal matter in which APLE played quite a
significant role.
I have, this afternoon, conducted my
third interview with Yang Dany and her mother. For the second time, and in
front of two witness journalists, both mother and daughter have admitted that
no rape took place.
APLE must have suspected from the
outset that no rape had taken place since court documents make it quite clear
that after two ‘brutal’ rapes. Yang Dany remained a virgin; that her hymen was
intact.
That APLE should be a party to the
conviction of a man for rape, in absentia, when the NGO knew that the ‘victim’
remained a virgin, is reprehensible. In APLE’s zeal to catch pedophiles you
have been party to a major miscarriage of justice. How often does APLE secure
convictions under circumstances such as these?
David Fletcher is due in court next
Monday, 27th Oct, for a hearing to determine whether or not he is
entitled to a ‘re-trial’. I put ‘re-trial’ in inverted commas because there has
been no trial at all in which Mr. Fletcher was legally represented and able to
present evidence in his own defense.
These are basic human rights guaranteed in the Cambodian constitution
yet APLE stood by and allowed a judicial process to take place which it knew to
be flawed – not just because the ‘rape victim’s’ hymen was still intact but
because but because a whole raft of rights guaranteed to an accused person in
accordance with the Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure were not adhered to.
APLE’s own legal representatives were aware of these serious breaches and yet
took part in the legal proceedings anyway and accepted the verdict as fair.
This in itself raises serious questions about the lengths to which APLE will go
to secure a constant stream of ‘pedophile convictions’.
I am not a lawyer but I have found so
many instances in which the Cambodian Code of Criminal Procedure was breached
that only an incompetent APLE lawyer would not have picked up these breaches.
Or, an APLE lawyer more concerned with securing a conviction than with
evidence, facts or the truth. After all, a constant stream of convictions leads
to a constant stream of funding for APLE!
Here is a partial list of those parts
of the Cambodian Code of Criminal
Procedure breached in this matter:
http://cambodia440.blogspot.com/2014/10/5-david-fletchers-hearing-on-27th-oct.html
I would like to suggest, in the next
two days, that you or Ana make contact with Yang Dany and her mother and ask
them if they wish to stick with the rape story presented in court by APLE and
other NGOs.
I have attached a letter I have
written today to the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary, Mr Phillip Hammond. It
speaks for itself.
best wishes
James Ricketson
Dear Mr Ricketson
ReplyDeleteI admire your courage for standing up against organisations such as Action pour les Enfants (APLE). APLE is a very powerful, but also very dangerous organisation. I've been fighting them for years, trying to expose their criminal activities, but without any success so far.
Over the years I've collected and archived data from many cases involving APLE. 9 out 10 cases have something strange. None of the cases APLE is involved with seems to be genuine. All of the cases where the suspect was guilty beyond doubt, APLE came in later; after the arrest was already made.
Some people come to Cambodia for the sole purpose of sexually abusing children. Nowadays, social awareness has grown and Combodian police is equipped enough to handle such cases themselves, without the need of interference or 'support' from APLE.
In all other cases APLE was the first to initiate the case, followed by 'victims' testifying nothing ever happened, parents complaining they were pushed and pressured by APLE or admitting APLE offered huge compensation in return for a signed complaint. And so on, and so on . . .
Action pour les Enfants (APLE Cambodia), founded by Thierry Darnaudet, is a criminal organisation, abusing and violating the human rights of Cambodian children and their parents. This organisation is a danger and a threat to Cambodian society and needs to be exposed and dismantled for good!
For years the NGO’s, the media, and the Cambodian government have propogated the myth that an invasion of Western pedophiles is the root cause of child sex-abuse in Cambodia.
ReplyDeleteThe sad truth is that 99% of the abuse of children in Cambodia is commited by Cambodians themselves (according to several independent Human Rights Organizations). Western ourists make up only 1/3 of the remaining 1 percent, yet this group has been targeted
Each group has it’s own motives but they generally boil dawn to money. The press and most blogs are so busy vilifying the accused that little effort has been made to take a critical look at the case. The convictions are used as self-evedence of guilt.
Unfortunately, the Cambodian justice system is designed to guarantee a guilty verdict. There are no juries. Child victims are confined and denied access while being interogated for weeks. (Remember the McMartin case). Under the old ‘Code Nepoleon’ one is considered guilty until proven innocent. In a reecent Siem Riep case in which the accused was acquited, the prosecuting attorney said, “The court did not have the right to acquit hime because they had failed to prove him innocent of the charges.”
In The Desault case a few years ago, his Cambodian step-son was detained an interogatted. At his trial the police presented a ‘statement” from the boy but the boy recanted it. Desault was convicted anyway. To this day the boy (now in his teens) says Desault did nothing. Recently an American teacher made ABC Nightline for “abusing up to 10 girls”.Despite a two year investigation, they only came up with a misdemeanor charge of touching two girls. At his trial The first girl confessed she had been punished by her family when he caught her stealing a phone from the school. The second girl testified adamantly that he had NEVER tried to touch her. When asked why her ‘statement’ said he had, she said the police had written her statement and told her she must sign it.
Most cases in Cambodia would never make it to trial in America. In fact, if the case does have substance, the accused are almost always extradicted. If they are not extradicted it usually means the case is shit, but in Cambodia conviction is almost 100%.
There have been Cambodian TV documentaries exposing APLE, many cases that have been won in court by innocent persons. So called called 'victims' have come clean with testimony to the court. There have been cover ups of the atrocities against the alleged underage victims who are kept locked in the APLE hostel for months and years while the trial goes on under the pretense that if they are let out on the street they will fall prey to the influance of the criminals. Mothers and children are themselves charged to keep them under fear of telling the truth. To get free if you are charged you will have to pay at least 50,000 usd. This money goes to APLE through it’s lawyers, to the judges, to the prison officials, a very small fraction to the victims, and to the press. The press especially Cambodia Daily, is fed with allegations and trumped up stories that find their way into the International press through Rueters that bias the case and damage the reputation and life of an accused even before the due process of law and trial is complete. The depth and extent of this corruption is beyond belief. And the way it ruins the lives of the used victims, the false imprisoned in Prey Sar where conditions are so severe and the stigma’s attached to this type of crime drive people even to suicide or life threatening health conditions develop. Such abused prisoners are ripe candidates for paying any amount of money to get out. This is the goal of APLE, money, and not fighting sex crimes. Many Cambodian officials and right up to the Royal family themselves use teenage girls for enjoyment but the Cambodians are never charged like foreigners.
ReplyDeleteI am a victim of APLE’s injustice and set up having spent 1 year in Prey Sar prison for false charges.
ReplyDeleteThere are numerous cases where APLE has seduced or set up foreign tourists in underage sex scandals for the pupose of extracting huge amounts of money for themselves.
APLE uses the same victims over and over again and sometimes they are not at all underaged but have no birth records to prove anything so the claim of APLE and the so called victims is held as the truth.
From within the system no one can tell the truth or they will have no chance of justice. And once outside again if you have paid to get out you never want to speak out for fear of some other trumped charges in your country of origin.
Dun Vibhol is a honest man who is trying to save and crusade for innocent people exploited from the APLE. Yes there are legitimate cases and the perpetrators should be dealt with to the full scope of the law.
The common understanding in the impune judical system for alleged sex offenders is guilty or innocent makes no differance, pay and go home and do not pay and get sentenced. Some Cambodian officials and courts judges are also invloved in this racket.
In my case my family receieved blackmail and extortion letters from APLE to pay 40,000 USD or i would have to spend 20 years in prison. This is just the tip of the iceburg as far as the NGO-Police nexus of the real crimes commited in Cambodia.
Thierry Darnaudet will not respond to you in any way Mr Ricketson. He will simply ignore you as he does all who, like you, eventually come to the conclusion that he has the morals of a gangster and that innocent men are just so much collateral damage to him.
ReplyDeleteThierry Darnaudet doesn't give a fuck if a man is innocent or guilty. Either way there is money in it for him and for the corrupt network of police, NGOs and courts who are in on his scam. If you annoy him enough he may try to set you up on some trumped up charge and make you APLE's next victim - to be processed through his pedophile factory until he has made his money. Whether you go to jail or not will not concern him. It is irrelevant. The international donor community, the international NGO community, the media all know about Thierry Darnaudet's scam but are afraid to speak out about it. Good luck trying to nail him and his corrupt NGO. I think your chances in this corrupt country are about the same as a snowflake's in hell
In fairness to APLE some of the confusion surrounding the sequence of events surrounding the ‘rape’ allegation may well have been caused by Yang Dany and her mother themselves. At the outset, that is - back in July 2010. I do not want to go into details here, just now. However, in brief: since Sept 2010, when Yang Dany’s virginity was established in a medical report for the court,
DeleteAPLE has been aware of the virtual impossibility that Fletcher raped Yang Dany. Hymens simply do not remain intact after 2 ‘brutal rapes’. And nor do hymens grow back, regardless of what the trial judges asserted in their summing up of the evidence. So, for a period of 4 years APLE has pursued David Fletcher through the courts, paying the lawyers representing Yang Dany, whilst at the same time knowing that no rape took place. If APLE’s lawyers wished to argue in court that this was one of those rare occasions (I can find no record of it occurring) when a hymen can remain intact after rape, the NGO could have produced in court an expert witness to argue this case. The question of Dany’s intact hymen was never discussed in court. By anyone. It was considered a detail unworthy of any examination at all. When I showed Dany a copy of the medical report and told her it was on the court record, she was shocked. She had no idea that this report had been entered into evidence. If, next Monday, APLE’s lawyers continue on with their insistence that Yang Dany was raped, regardless of the medical report and Yang Dany’s insistence that she was not raped, all doubt should disappear as to the honesty and integrity of APLE. It will be interesting to see whether LICADHO and ADHOC and other NGOs committed to the protection of human rights will offer any support at all to Fletcher based on the facts; whether they will publicly question the professional ethics of an NGO that either uses fabricated evidence or turns a blind eye to genuine evidence (hymen intact) in order to keep up the supply of ‘victims;’ the NGO needs to justify continued funding. I am thinking of you in particular, Naly Pilorge – so quick to condemn human rights violations perpetrated by the Hun Sen regime and so reticent to offer up even the mildest criticism of your fellow NGOs even when they are clearly breaching Cambodian law and the human rights of the very Cambodians they are, in theory, here to help.
Mister i contacted you about darnaudet.
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Mister, i contacted you in private message on facebook.
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