Australian travel agent, Trevor Lake, 65, arrested in Cambodia for allegedly having sex with underage girls and filming himself in the act

* Adventure travel expert Trevor Lake is in a Cambodian police cell awaiting formal charges on child sex offences
* Police say Lake, 65, paid two girls aged 16 and 17 for sex and filmed himself in the act
* Police allegedly seized laptops and cameras
* Lake was operating in the town of Siem Reap, the tourist gateway to the world heritage listed ancient temple ruins of Angkor Wat
* Lake has been tourist guide in Southeast Asia for 28 years

A 65-year-old Australian who is the manager of a large South-east Asian adventure travel agency has been arrested for allegedly buying sex from two underage girls and filming their sex acts together in the Cambodia city of Siem Reap.

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua) -- Cambodian juvenile protection police on Tuesday arrested an Australian national on suspicion of purchasing child prostitution from at least two underage girls, a senior police officer said.

"Sixty-five-year-old Sydney man Trevor Lake, country manager of a big tour company in Cambodia, was arrested Tuesday morning in Siem Reap province on suspicion of purchasing child prostitution from two underage girls," Duong Thavary, chief of the Siem Reap Provincial Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection Police, told Xinhua via telephone.

While searching his apartment, police found in a laptop pornographic images and video footages of Trevor Lake having sex with the girls.

Two laptops, three cameras and two external hard disks were confiscated for further analysis.

"We charge him with producing child porn, which could face up to 10 years in jail if convicted," said the official.

A child protection NGO Action Pour Les Enfants (APLE), which assisted police to investigate and arrest the suspect, said Trevor Lake became subject of an investigation after one of the victims stated that he paid her to have sex with him and that the sexual activities were filmed and photographed.

According to APLE, there are possibly many more victims to be identified from the seized images and concerned agents are working hard with police to determine any distribution of the pornographic materials online.

Cambodia launched an anti-pedophilia operation in 2003 in a bid to end its reputation as a haven for child sex offenders. Since then, dozens of foreigners have been imprisoned for child sex crimes.

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