Aust pedophile seeks shorter US sentence

Yahoo News New Zealand ^ | July 8, 2013 | Peter Mitchell

[informavoracious]

Australian pedophile Peter Truong, who has admitted buying an infant boy with his partner for $US5000 ($NZ6479) and allowing him to be sexually abused by a global child molester network, is hoping a US judge will give him a reduced jail sentence.

Truong, 36, formerly of Cairns, is facing a 40-year sentence while he sits in the La Tuna federal prison on the Texas-New Mexico border. Truong's Australian partner Mark Newton, 42, was jailed last week in an Indianapolis court for 40 years.

A tip off from New Zealand authorities led to the investigation. The horrifying details of how Truong and Newton bought the infant from his mother in Russia, then sexually abused the boy themselves and handed him around to pedophiles in Australia, the US, France and Germany, has been described as "some of the most heinous acts of exploitation" seen by law enforcement officials in Australia and the US.

Truong, who will be sentenced later this year, is claiming to be a child abuse victim. In objecting to a pre-sentence report compiled by a US probation officer, Truong's lawyer Angelyn Gates complains the report fails to detail Truong's history as a victim which "could justify" a shorter sentence.

"Mr Truong himself was the victim of child molestation, indoctrinated into the man-boy love group as a minor teenager, and brain washed to keep quiet and protect other perpetrators," Ms Gates wrote.

Truong, who went by the screen name "Plopper" on pedophile internet sites, also argues the pre-sentence report wrongly portrays him as being a dual Vietnamese-Australian citizen. "Mr Truong considers himself, and believes that he is, only a citizen of Australia," Ms Gates wrote.

Mr Truong also argues he did not pay $US8000 for the boy, as alleged by prosecutors, but $US5000.

[informavoracious]

He only paid $5000 instead of $8000, that's better. And, not a learned behavior.

[Farmer Dean]

Will someone please relieve this POS of the burden of his perverted life?Somebody get a rope.

[ElkGroveDan]

A reduced sentence? This is the kind of crime that deserves execution.

[Gay State Conservative]

Next time maybe they'll do that to kids in Australia where,it would seem,such acts result in a year of probation and a severe scolding by the judge.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Instead of 40 years, how about .38 Special, that is a little shorter sentence!

[Chode]

[Billthedrill]

40 sounds about right to me.

[struggle]

You know, gay marriage and adoption is a wonderful thing.

[Hardraade]

He wants to be tried as a child, maybe?

[informavoracious]

The saddest thing is this little boy is scarred for life and in California, it is against the law to provide psychotherapy or otherwise attempt to change sexual orientation.

[arthurus]

You must be incarcerated in prison for 40 years. That's a sentence.

You get Life in the pen. that's a shorter sentence. Give him the shorter sentence. Any questions?

[shibumi]

You could also give him a shorter sentence by removing clauses and modifiers such as “...eligible for parole...”

[Aria]

And what is being done to the so-called “mother”? A word she does not deserve.

[Standing Wolf]

Instead of 40 years, how about .38 Special, that is a little shorter sentence!

I have no objection, but must point out rope is less expensive, reusable, and recycleable.

[informavoracious]

I don’t know. She is Russian and sold the boy to the two men. In the original news article, it said she handed the boy to them and walked away without looking back. She, of course, can claim she had no idea. Supposedly she was a surrogate and one of the “dads” donated the sperm but now there are doubts of that.

[carlo3b]

He only paid $5000 instead of $8000, that's better. And, not a learned behavior.

The going rate is $8000, so how can you think he didn't get an inferior child with which to molest.. If he can prove it was only $5000, let him go.. /s

Geeeze, you can try to contain yourself, but I would kill them on sight..

[Cen-Tejas]

this story lends Total respect for the term “lynch mob”............my god.........I just can’t believe there are humanoids on this earth that would do this!

[Eagles6]

""Mr Truong himself was the victim of child molestation, indoctrinated into the man-boy love group as a minor teenager, and brain washed to keep quiet and protect other perpetrators," Ms Gates wrote."

They know this is how homosexuality works. They aren't born that way. It's not normal. They aren't "just like us".

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[informavoracious]

I wonder how many more of these cases are out there all over the world who haven’t been caught. These are sick individuals who used s baby as their sex toy. He was completely dehumanized. There isn’t a chance in hell this kid is going to grow up to be heterosexual. It will be a miracle if he doesn’t grow up to molest children himself.

[naturalman1975]

Not so. In Australia, he’d be facing Life with a substantial non-parole period (most likely less than 40 years, but still significant - 20 years, most likely).

Our laws are quite soft on ‘minor’ cases unfortunately - where a person can argue it would have been legal if the person had been a couple of years older - but this case does not fall into that category.