Wait a minute,since when can you be prosecuted for your actions over seas? I’m no fan of pedophilia but this is odd. I could understand extradition to where the crime took place. Is it a crime in the Phillipines? I believe the age of consent there is 12 if they are not a prostitute or coerced. Do we have some sort of agreement with them? Was he wanted there and simply prosecuted here for convenience? The article wasn’t clear on any of this. I can see a charge for the child porn he had, but to charge for something he did elsewhere?
Something similar happened in California. A Mexican married a 16 year old in Mexico, where such a thing was legal at the time. He came to California and was prosecuted for statutory rape.
If you can be prosecuted here for committing crimes elsewhere, can you be prosecuted elsewhere for doing something that is a crime there? SOuth Carolina’s age of consent is 16. WOuld I be prosecuted for engaging in an act with a 16 year old when I returned to CA? Bizarre.
GW Bush passed a law allowing prosecution of US citizens engaged in sex trafficking overseas. Though I am against international courts, I find this a legitimate use of US power.