Hanoi, Vietnam : Vietnam has jailed a Canadian teacher for four years for sexually abusing underage homeless boys he met on Hanoi's streets, a court official said Thursday, in a rare prosecution for the offence.
Vadim Scott Benderman, 46, who taught English at a foreign language centre and played music in bars in Hanoi, was found guilty at a trial in the capital Hanoi on Wednesday.
"He was charged for having sex with four local homeless teenaged boys he met in the centre of Hanoi between late 2014 and his arrest in the middle of last year," the clerk said.
The indictment said his "behaviour infringed upon the teenagers' physical and psychological development," according to a report on the VNExpress news site.
Benderman will be deported after completing his four-year jail term, the clerk added.
In a statement posted on its website the foundation lauded Vietnamese authorities for managing to "catch and imprison this paedophile who has been abusing children".
Glitter, 64, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was arrested in Vietnam in late 2005 and convicted of committing obscene acts with two girls then aged 11 and 12 in the southern resort town of Vung Tau.
Glitter, who paid compensation to the families of both victims, evaded the more serious charge of child rape, which carries a maximum penalty of death by firing squad in Vietnam.
Vadim Scott Benderman, 46, who taught English at a foreign language centre and played music in bars in Hanoi, was found guilty at a trial in the capital Hanoi on Wednesday.
"He was charged for having sex with four local homeless teenaged boys he met in the centre of Hanoi between late 2014 and his arrest in the middle of last year," the clerk said.
The indictment said his "behaviour infringed upon the teenagers' physical and psychological development," according to a report on the VNExpress news site.
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Benderman will be deported after completing his four-year jail term, the clerk added.
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In a statement posted on its website the foundation lauded Vietnamese authorities for managing to "catch and imprison this paedophile who has been abusing children".
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Glitter, 64, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was arrested in Vietnam in late 2005 and convicted of committing obscene acts with two girls then aged 11 and 12 in the southern resort town of Vung Tau.
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Glitter, who paid compensation to the families of both victims, evaded the more serious charge of child rape, which carries a maximum penalty of death by firing squad in Vietnam.
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