U.S. Supreme Court,
Criminal,
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Nov. 1, 2018
High court should hear child rape case
Already the 9th Circuit’s illogical reasoning has resulted in mistrial of a case involving a defendant who allegedly molested a child in Mexico.
William Douglas Kari
In House Counsel
Arbitech
Email: doug.kari@arbitech.com
Doug has been a practicing California attorney for 33 years. He was with Orrick in Los Angeles for 17 years and currently works in-house at Arbitech in Irvine.
In 2008, seven little girls boarded an airplane in Cambodia. All were alleged victims of Michael J. Pepe, a retired American accused of raping them at a compound in Phnom Penh.
The girls, aged 10-12 when the assaults allegedly occurred, flew to Los Angeles, where Pepe faced charges under the PROTECT Act, 18 USC Section 2423(c), a statute targeting Americans who molest children in foreign countries.
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