This Monster Got LIFE After Exploiting Vietnamese Boys!

Pred used online connections to meet with children in Vietnam.

The U.S. Justice Department has laid out enough charges to get a Florida man put in federal time out for LIFE. He traveled to Vietnam to have sex with underage boys under the guise of being an English teacher. He gave the victims money, gifts and promises of secrecy if the victims did not tell.

This monster thought he would get away with these crimes because he was in a foreign country and rules against prostitution are lapse. He thought wrong.

The monster pleaded guilty to two counts of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct and two counts of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor into illegal sexual activity in February 2020. According to documents filed with the court and statements made in connection with the monster’s plea and sentencing, on two separate occasions in 2015 and 2016, the monster traveled from Florida to Vietnam to engage in sex acts with minor Vietnamese boys. According to court documents, the monster flew back and forth to Vietnam under the guise that he was an English teacher, and some boys were lured to the monster with promises of money and gifts while others were introduced to ths monster as their English teacher.  

Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg for the Middle District of Florida, and Assistant Special Agent in Charge John Dumas of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa made the announcement. 

The case was investigated by HSI agents in Tampa and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Trial Attorney Kyle P. Reynolds of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney Candace Garcia Rich for the Middle District of Florida prosecuted the case.

Children are being exploited for sex in Vietnam.

“The laws of the United States will still catch up to child predators who even travel to foreign countries to sexually abuse minor children,” said HSI Tampa Assistant Special Agent in Charge John Dumas. “Thanks to HSI’s international investigative authorities and strong partnerships, both at HSI Tampa and HSI Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, this sexual predator was stopped from harming more children and his victim will have the justice they deserve.”

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse, launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by U.S. Attorneys’ Offices and the CEOS, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.justice.gov/psc.

Anyone with information on suspected child sexual exploitation can contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-843-5678, or https://report.cybertip.org.