Convicted pedophile Michael Pepe was sentenced in a US federal court on Friday to a prison term of 210 years – 30 years for each of his seven counts of sexually abusing young girls in Phnom Penh before his arrest in 2006.

A former US Marine captain, Pepe was extradited to the US in 2007 and was convicted in 2008 under a law that allows the US government to prosecute American sex offenders for crimes committed in other countries.

At the sentencing, US Federal Judge Dale Fischer noted that Pepe – who worked in Phnom Penh as a part-time university professor – had shown “no remorse”.

“He went to Cambodia because it was easy to molest little girls there,” Fischer said. “He raped and tortured them … while maintaining the facade of being interested in the education of Cambodian children.”

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