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Florida Lawyer Deported Back To U.S. After Allegedly Paying To Sexually Abuse Children In Cambodia
Florida Lawyer Deported Back To U.S. After Allegedly Paying To Sexually Abuse Children In Cambodia
A Florida attorney has been deported back to the US after spending two and a half years in a Cambodian prison for sexually abusing four kids — and now faces 170 years behind bars in the States if found guilty of child sex crimes.
Rugh James Cline, 40, is currently under house arrest at his Tampa residence after he was indicted by the Department of Justice in February of 2021 — two years after his arrest in Cambodia.
He faces five counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and one count of possession of child exploitation materials, according to the DOJ. The lawyer is accused of traveling to Cambodia in February and May of 2019 and paying to sexually abuse four children — all under the age of 15 — on multiple occasions.
The alleged child rapist has pleaded not guilty to his charges after his first appearance in federal court in Tampa on June 7 in Tampa.
Cline was released on a $100,000 bond last Monday under the condition he would be on 24-hour home detention with GPS monitoring, given the severity of his accused crimes.
He is also forbidden from using the internet and cannot have any contact with minors while under home detention, according to the DOJ.
If found guilty, Cline could be sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for each count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, as well as an additional 20 years for possession of child pornography.
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