WASHINGTON - US AND Filipino officials have set up a fund to compensate two girls who were sxxually abused by a Florida man in what is believed to be the first such case, US prosecutors said on Friday.
The funds were established in the case of Donald Mathias, who subjected the young girls to repeated sxxual abuse during visits to the Philippines in 2007, the Department of Justice said.
The Department of Justice said this was likely the first case in which the United States provided restitution trusts for the benefit of foreign victims of sxx tourism.
Unicef said the girls were aged 11 and 12 at the time of the abuse. Mathias, 64, was sentenced in March to 20 years in prison for engaging in sxx tourism in the Philippines, and also ordered to pay US$200,000 (S$260,000) in damages to his victims.
He pleaded guilty in December 2009 to four counts of travelling in foreign commerce and engaging in illicit sxxual conduct.
During his trial, Mathias admitted he had contacted the girls' mother and exchanged hundreds e-mails with her about having sxx with the young girls. Mathias paid the mother thousands of dollars from 2005 to December 2008, court documents showed. -- AFP
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