US Missionary Convicted of Child Sex Abuse in Cambodia

A federal jury Wednesday convicted an American missionary of sexually abusing children in an orphanage he ran in Phnom Penh. Daniel Stephen Johnston, of Coos Bay, Oregon, has already spent a year in prison in Cambodia and will likely serve more jail time after he is sentenced in August. "The despicable nature of this defendant's conduct is beyond understanding," U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams said. "Whether you are abusing children in this country or abroad, you...

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