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"Hari Krishna leader to appeal Cambodia child sex conviction" (Deutsche Presse-Agentur, via TopNews, 7 August 2008)

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), via TopNews (topnews.in)

A Deutsche Presse-Agentur report from Phnom Penh, posted on the Indian news site TopNews on 7 August 2008, that Wayne Thomas Rapanos (Tattva Darshan Das), head of the Hare Krishna-affiliated aid group Bhaktivedanta Eco Village Cambodia, was sentenced on 6 August 2008 to two and a half years in prison for indecent acts against minors and would appeal. Police said he had been found naked with two girls aged 12 and 16 in a Phnom Penh guest house in March 2008. Copy of the page as it stood on 10 August 2008 (Wayback Machine). Nothing is redacted: the girls are not named.

"Hari Krishna leader to appeal Cambodia child sex conviction" (Deutsche Presse-Agentur, via TopNews, 7 August 2008)

Aug 7, 2008 · Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa), via TopNews (topnews.in)

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Hari Krishna leader to appeal Cambodia child sex conviction
                                         Submitted by Mohit Joshi on Thu, 08/07/2008 - 15:20.

 Phnom Penh - The leader of a Hari Krishna-affiliated aid organization in Cambodia was to appeal a conviction for molesting a 12-
                                         year-old girl, a Phnom Penh court said Thursday.

Police said US national Thomas Rapanos Wayne, head of a Hare Krishna aid group, was found naked in the company of two girls,
      aged 12 and 16, when he was arrested in a guest house in the capital in March. The age of consent in Cambodia is 15.

  Wayne, alias Tattva Darshan Das, 55, was sentenced Wednesday to two and a half years in prison for committing indecent acts
                                                      against minors.

          "He was convicted but he said he was innocent and he will appeal," court clerk Keing Bokhea said by telephone.

       Wayne was formerly president of the relatively obscure Bhaktivedanta Eco Village (BEV) Cambodia, an educational aid
                                                           organization.

   He held a copy of the religious text Bhagavad Gita and a portrait of the Hindu god Krishna during his sentencing, the English-
                                               language Cambodia Daily said. (dpa)

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