Accused Child Abuser Flees The Philippines
Preston Jay Kuntz paid his P100,000 (about $2000) and promptly fled the country. He was found with a 12 year old girl on Bantayan Island in North Cebu Province last month. The Philippines is now asking the US Department of Home Land Security to revoke his passport so he cannot leave the USA.
The Philippines has started extradition proceedings to bring him back to the Philippines to face charges here.
In related news, Gary Lee Rohn was arrested last week for being in the company of children. At the time, the children first claimed they had not been abused. Now, two girls, ages 11 and 15 are reporting that Rohn did touch them inappropriately. Rohn has already surrendered his passport.
I will do what my best to continue to follow these two stories.
Tagged with: Cebu • Living In The Phlippines • Philippines
Filed under: Living In The Philippines
Like this post? Subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!
Get
To The Philippines Faster
Well if these guys are pedophiles I really hope they get what they deserve. The girls parents too if they were in on it. It was a very odd case with a lot of Why questions in it. Part of that is probably the inaccuracy of reporting by many of the papers. He was obviously guilty of one provision of the law even if he did nothing else wrong. Taking a 12 year old to a resort alone is certainly odd. It is still possible he’s just not too bright.
If he is a pedophile he may not get away as clean as he thought by running to the US. They don’t have much tolerence for them here anymore either.
As for mister Rohn once again he may or may not be guilty. People changing their stories is common here especially if they smell money. Or if the police don’t like what they have to say even if it is the truth.
Girls at first denying anything happened is also normal, espeically since they went regularly and it happened repeated times. I’m sure they felt like they had done wrong too. The concerns you hint to are valid but these guys certainly put themselves in bad situations. What would be the most likely reason for it? They have cravings they cannot or do not wish to control.
What is most likely 99 times out of a 100 what would be going on with a 40 year old guy taking a 12 year old girl to a hotel room?
People do get wrongly accusedd, police do sometimes get people to say things that are not true. But considering what we know about these men, it is more likely that they were up to no good. What makes a man the most stupid being on earth?
So far, I don’t the US would have anything they could prosecute on, its not illegal to be in the company of children there.
If the Philippines goes through the extradition process he’ll be back.