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June 17, 2009, Wednesday
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A CAMBODIAN man who claimed to have a magic cure for women worried about the fidelity of their partners was charged with rape and child sexual abuse yesterday.
Police said Ros Sarin, 56, had established himself 15 years ago as having magic powers that women could avail to ensure true love from their husbands or boyfriends.
He was arrested on Sunday after the Phnom Penh Municipal Court received a complaint from a woman claiming she had been raped during a consultation.
Sok Rouen, a prosecutor of the court, said Ros Sarin had been charged with a dozen counts of rape and child sexual abuse.
The newspaper Reaksmei Kampuchea reported that the man had conducted his activities in a secluded corner of a Buddhist pagoda, 30 kilometers north of the capital, Phnom Penh.
It said that when his clients visited, they were first required to swear an oath in front of Buddha's statue that they would not reveal what went on inside.
They were then allegedly put in a locked room, given a drink claimed to be water but meant to increase their sexual appetite, shown a sex video while Ros Sarin chanted, and then raped them.
The newspaper cited officials saying that more than 100 women and girls had been raped by the suspect.
Belief in magic for good and evil is widespread in many countries of Southeast Asia, and often associated with local practices of Buddhism, though black magic is not part of the religion.
Similar cases surface occasionally in neighboring Thailand.
Hang Samouen, 43, alleged to be a confederate of the suspect, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy.
Police said Ros Sarin, 56, had established himself 15 years ago as having magic powers that women could avail to ensure true love from their husbands or boyfriends.
He was arrested on Sunday after the Phnom Penh Municipal Court received a complaint from a woman claiming she had been raped during a consultation.
Sok Rouen, a prosecutor of the court, said Ros Sarin had been charged with a dozen counts of rape and child sexual abuse.
The newspaper Reaksmei Kampuchea reported that the man had conducted his activities in a secluded corner of a Buddhist pagoda, 30 kilometers north of the capital, Phnom Penh.
It said that when his clients visited, they were first required to swear an oath in front of Buddha's statue that they would not reveal what went on inside.
They were then allegedly put in a locked room, given a drink claimed to be water but meant to increase their sexual appetite, shown a sex video while Ros Sarin chanted, and then raped them.
The newspaper cited officials saying that more than 100 women and girls had been raped by the suspect.
Belief in magic for good and evil is widespread in many countries of Southeast Asia, and often associated with local practices of Buddhism, though black magic is not part of the religion.
Similar cases surface occasionally in neighboring Thailand.
Hang Samouen, 43, alleged to be a confederate of the suspect, was also arrested and charged with conspiracy.
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